Further penetration into infrastructure

Curiosity is a double-edged weapon. It is part of who we are as humans. Persistent attacks are not enough for a hungry hacker. So, a penetration tester will look for further techniques to compromise more systems and networks in the infrastructure, to gain more access. Some of these techniques are:

• Ping sweep
• Internal DNS enumeration
• Install uploaders
• Services enumeration
• Port forwarding
• VPN to internal networks pivoting