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Windows Recon Computer Browser Discovery

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Disclosed
N/A
Created
May 30, 2018

Description

This module uses railgun to discover hostnames and IPs on the network.
LTYPE should be set to one of the following values: WK (all workstations), SVR (all servers),
SQL (all SQL servers), DC (all Domain Controllers), DCBKUP (all Domain Backup Servers),
NOVELL (all Novell servers), PRINTSVR (all Print Que servers), MASTERBROWSER (all Master Browsers),
WINDOWS (all Windows hosts), or UNIX (all Unix hosts).

Author

mubix [email protected]

Platform

Windows

References

Module Options

To display the available options, load the module within the Metasploit console and run the commands 'show options' or 'show advanced':


    msf > use post/windows/recon/computer_browser_discovery
    msf post(computer_browser_discovery) > show actions
        ...actions...
    msf post(computer_browser_discovery) > set ACTION < action-name >
    msf post(computer_browser_discovery) > show options
        ...show and set options...
    msf post(computer_browser_discovery) > run
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