A user has taken control of a workstation in a department with limited visibility. An assessment team wants to learn about the servers and services exchanging data on this subnet. Which method is the best for revealing real-time communications?
Run a capture tool to intercept broadcast and multicast exchanges
Analyze archived log files to find earlier connection attempts
Try random sweeps of IP ranges in a scattered pattern
Gather system variables to see references to potential hosts
Capturing traffic from the host reveals what is actually happening on the wire and helps the tester detect active endpoints as they broadcast or exchange data. Reviewing logs and environment variables may help indirectly, but they do not expose active connections in real time. Scanning random IP addresses can miss important hosts and cause extra noise.
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