Chapter 4: Performing Local Enumeration
Now that we have our initial foothold on the target system, we need to enumerate additional information from the target that will be vital and pivotal to the privilege escalation process. This information will be used to structure, plan, and coordinate our privilege escalation attacks successfully.
Therefore, it is vitally important to learn how to enumerate information correctly and comprehensively from a target system in order to successfully escalate privileges.
In this chapter, you will learn about the enumeration process, why it is important, and the various local enumeration techniques for Windows and Linux. You will then learn how to use automated enumeration tools to automate processes.
In this chapter, we're going to cover the following main topics:
- Understanding the enumeration process
- Windows enumeration
- Linux enumeration
