What is Enumeration?

Enumeration is defined as a process which establishes an active connection to the target hosts to discover potential attack vectors in the system, and the same can be used for further exploitation of the system.

Enumeration is used to gather the below

• Usernames, Group names
• Hostnames
• Network shares and services
• IP tables and routing tables
• Service settings and Audit configurations
• Application and banners
• SNMP and DNS Details

Significance of enumeration:

Enumeration is often considered as a critical phase in Penetration testing as the outcome of enumeration can be used directly for exploiting the system.

Enumeration classification:

Enumeration can be performed on the below.

1. NetBios Enumeration
2. SNMP Enumeration
3. LDAP Enumeration
4. NTP Enumeration
5. SMTP Enumeration
6. DNS Enumeration
7. Windows Enumeration
8. UNIX /Linux Enumeration