Chapter 11: Whoot… I Have To Go Deep

After reading the previous chapter, we have a foothold/shell, but now what? Next, we need to understand where we have landed and what we have access to. This includes gathering as much information as possible, harvesting credentials, mapping network connections, using proxies to run internal network scans, and discovering pivotable hosts. This is the phase where we need to traverse the inside of the system. We can accomplish this by using tools to map the network through proxies and go deeper. Depending on the entry point, there will be key information to discover, including clues, which will provide details about lower-level systems that will be required to get down to the physical I/O.

In this chapter, we will be installing a firewall that will allow us to build out segmentation in our lab network. After gaining initial access to a network, this tends to be where people get stuck and typically ask questions such as, what do I do now...