We'll start with a basic example of pivoting into a hidden network. Let's suppose you've social-engineered your way into an office building and you find one of the open conference rooms. There are network drops throughout the room, so you sit down and plug right in. Unfortunately, you don't get far: it's a conference room that is often used for presentations with guests and business partners, so IT has decided to segregate it away from their internal resources. You poke around with Netdiscover and find just one machine on the LAN:
You continue your enumeration by scanning other private address ranges, including subnets inside 10.0.0.0/8, but you find no other hosts. You're stuck on 192.168.63.0/24. After some footprinting, you find that the other machine on the LAN is a Vista Business box – now we're in...