Attack Phase: Privilege Escalation

Question 1

Methods you can use to escalate your privileges:

Answer 1

• Deploy password crackers
• Deploy Trojans
• Social Engineering

Question 2

General notes:

Answer 2

• This is about the time you attempt a password crack, via brute force or a dictionary based attack, or otherwise
• Generally, the interior is much more vulnerable than the exterior perimeter
• Adequately escalating your privileges allows you to have control over the full functionality of a device. Meaning you can install whatever you like, run whichever commands you like, edit what you like, extract all the data you like (supposedly), all that good wholesome shoite.