RPCCLIENT
This is a Linux tool (part of the Samba suite) that allows you to make Remote Procedure Calls (RPCs) to Windows systems over SMB. It's often used by penetration testers and sysadmins to enumerate information from Windows hosts, like users, shares, policies, etc. It offers us many different requests with which we can execute specific functions on the SMB server to get information. The Remote Procedure Call (RPC
) is a concept and a central tool to realize operational and work-sharing structures in networks and client-server architectures. The communication process via RPC includes passing parameters and the return of a function value.
ANONYMOUS CONNECTION
root@oco:~$ rpcclient -U "" 10.129.14.128
Enter WORKGROUP\'s password:
* The -U flag specifies the username.
* The empty string ("") tries to login with no username
- use null/anonymous session (if allowed by the server)
CMDS

ENUMERATION
“Enumeration of an SMB server and its shares is possible if the server is misconfigured, such as when anonymous (null session) access is allowed.”
DISPLAY SERVER INFORMATION
rpcclient $> srvinfo
DEVSMB Wk Sv PrQ Unx NT SNT DEVSM
platform_id : 500
os version : 6.1
server type : 0x809a03
DISPLAY DEPLOYED DOMAINS
rpcclient $> enumdomains
name:[DEVSMB] idx:[0x0]
name:[Builtin] idx:[0x1]
QUERY DOMAIN INFORMATION
rpcclient $> querydominfo
Domain: DEVOPS
Server: DEVSMB
Comment: DEVSM
Total Users: 2
Total Groups: 0
Total Aliases: 0
Sequence No: 1632361158
Force Logoff: -1
Domain Server State: 0x1
Server Role: ROLE_DOMAIN_PDC
Unknown 3: 0x1
DISPLAY SHARES
rpcclient $> netshareenumall
netname: print$
remark: Printer Drivers
path: C:\var\lib\samba\printers
password:
netname: home
remark: INFREIGHT Samba
path: C:\home\
password:
netname: dev
remark: DEVenv
path: C:\home\sambauser\dev\
password:
netname: notes
remark: CheckIT
path: C:\mnt\notes\
password:
netname: IPC$
remark: IPC Service (DEVSM)
path: C:\tmp
password:
LIST SPECIFIC SHARE INFO
rpcclient $> netsharegetinfo notes
netname: notes
remark: CheckIT
path: C:\mnt\notes\
password:
type: 0x0
perms: 0
max_uses: -1
num_uses: 1
revision: 1
type: 0x8004: SEC_DESC_DACL_PRESENT SEC_DESC_SELF_RELATIVE
DACL
ACL Num ACEs: 1 revision: 2
---
ACE
type: ACCESS ALLOWED (0) flags: 0x00
Specific bits: 0x1ff
Permissions: 0x101f01ff: Generic all access SYNCHRONIZE_ACCESS WRITE_OWNER_ACCESS WRITE_DAC_ACCESS READ_CONTROL_ACCESS DELETE_ACCESS
SID: S-1-1-0
USER ENUMERATION
rpcclient $> enumdomusers
user:[mrb3n] rid:[0x3e8]
user:[cry0l1t3] rid:[0x3e9]
rpcclient $> queryuser 0x3e9
User Name : cry0l1t3
Full Name : cry0l1t3
Home Drive : \\devsmb\cry0l1t3
Dir Drive :
Profile Path: \\devsmb\cry0l1t3\profile
Logon Script:
Description :
Workstations:
Comment :
Remote Dial :
Logon Time : Do, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 CET
Logoff Time : Mi, 06 Feb 2036 16:06:39 CET
Kickoff Time : Mi, 06 Feb 2036 16:06:39 CET
Password last set Time : Mi, 22 Sep 2021 17:50:56 CEST
Password can change Time : Mi, 22 Sep 2021 17:50:56 CEST
Password must change Time: Do, 14 Sep 30828 04:48:05 CEST
unknown_2[0..31]...
user_rid : 0x3e9
group_rid: 0x201
acb_info : 0x00000014
fields_present: 0x00ffffff
logon_divs: 168
bad_password_count: 0x00000000
logon_count: 0x00000000
padding1[0..7]...
logon_hrs[0..21]...
rpcclient $> queryuser 0x3e8
User Name : mrb3n
Full Name :
Home Drive : \\devsmb\mrb3n
Dir Drive :
Profile Path: \\devsmb\mrb3n\profile
Logon Script:
Description :
Workstations:
Comment :
Remote Dial :
Logon Time : Do, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 CET
Logoff Time : Mi, 06 Feb 2036 16:06:39 CET
Kickoff Time : Mi, 06 Feb 2036 16:06:39 CET
Password last set Time : Mi, 22 Sep 2021 17:47:59 CEST
Password can change Time : Mi, 22 Sep 2021 17:47:59 CEST
Password must change Time: Do, 14 Sep 30828 04:48:05 CEST
unknown_2[0..31]...
user_rid : 0x3e8
group_rid: 0x201
acb_info : 0x00000010
fields_present: 0x00ffffff
logon_divs: 168
bad_password_count: 0x00000000
logon_count: 0x00000000
padding1[0..7]...
logon_hrs[0..21]...
GROUP ENUMERATION
rpcclient $> querygroup 0x201
Group Name: None
Description: Ordinary Users
Group Attribute:7
Num Members:2
* due to certain restrictions based on the user, the querygroup may not produce
pertinent results
BRUTE FORCING USER RIDS
The cmd queryuser <RID>
is mostly allowed based on the RID and thus can be used along with the rpcclient utility to brute force the RIDs to get information
root@htb:~$ for i in $(seq 500 1100);do rpcclient -N -U "" 10.129.14.128 -c "queryuser 0x$(printf '%x\n' $i)" | grep "User Name\|user_rid\|group_rid" && echo "";done
User Name : sambauser
user_rid : 0x1f5
group_rid: 0x201
User Name : mrb3n
user_rid : 0x3e8
group_rid: 0x201
User Name : cry0l1t3
user_rid : 0x3e9
group_rid: 0x201
* An alternative to this would be a Python script from Impacket called samrdump.py.
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