Re: Scanning for blank admin passwords on a windows box

From: Joshua Levitsky (jlevitsk@joshie.com)
Date: Fri Jul 12 2002 - 20:35:39 EDT


I know Nessus (www.nessus.org) can identify machines capable of having Null
passwords. If there isn't a test already to try accounts with blank
passwords it would be trivial to write a script for Nessus to do the test
you want.

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Joshua Levitsky, MCSE, CISSP, EMTD
Desktop Systems Engineer
AOL Time Warner
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jason" <cisspstudy@yahoo.com>
To: <pen-test@securityfocus.com>
Sent: Thursday, July 11, 2002 9:51 PM
Subject: Scanning for blank admin passwords on a windows box
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> I am looking for a fast multithreaded tool that can scan a range of IP
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> addresses and look for blank administrator (or other user accounts)
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> passwords on a windows NT/2000 server.
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> If it can also try the username as password, server name as password that
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> would also be nice.
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> Doing blank password scanning using the following command line syntax is
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> driving me crazy!
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> FOR /L %i IN (1,1,254) DO net use \\XX.XX.XX.%i\IPC$ "" /u:Administrator
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> Any help appreciated.
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> Jason
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