Monday, April 1, 2013

NbtStat


Nbtstat (standing for NetBios Over TCP/IP Statistics) is a CLT that displays the cached NetBios name table. We can use it to display NetBios adapter status, the name-to-IP address mappings, names that have been registered locally on a system by NetBios applications, and even displays names resolved by broadcasts and by querying WINS servers. For more information see: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc940106.aspx.
How it works: To display the NetBios name cache, we can use the command "nbtstat -c".

Personal Remarks: For all of the labs that we completed, there were no NetBios names in the cache. I can see where this could be benefical if an attacker had accessed a computer and that registered in the NetBios and they no longer had an active connection. Of course, I never ran across this, so I can't really speak to the validity of this.
In addition to the -c swtich, there is the -A switch that lets you pass in a single ip address to check. It looks like the could be benefical. The -a swtich shows the status of the NetBios adapter.

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