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Banner Grabbing
- A technique used to gain information about servers and take inventory of systems and services.
- Can be used legitimately by network administrators or illegitimately by attackers to grab information such as HTTP headers.
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Banner Grabbing Tools
- Netcat
- Telnet
- Metasploit Framework (MSF)
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SMTP Enumeration
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Important enumeration SMTP fields include:
- VRFY
- EXPN
- RCPT TO
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For a list of SMTP header fields, visit this URL:
- https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4021