Penetration tester Interview Questions
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Technical question: networking security, application security, general penetration testing. Behavioural question: How to work in a group?, How it lead a team?, etc
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Please explain your career and what you hope to gain at Smartsheet
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Explain my career: - Identify vulnerability as much as possible (in scope) - Recommend to other team how to fix the issue What I hope to gain at Smartsheet?: Ans: Well, all of my penetration tester experience I work at vendor company. I never work at customer company before. I want to challenge myself that all of experience that work with multiple type of customer organization could improve the security at Smartsheet. Less


What is the main difference between processes and threads?
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Threads share the same memory allocated

1. What ports are used for Active Directory?
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At the time, Offensive Security of pre-2019 did not teach us Active Directory, but I quickly learned that since AD is built on top of standard SMB (Server Message Block), you can use techniques like overpassing-the-hash and passing-the-ticket to get a TGT (Ticket Granting Ticket), then attempt to crack the hashes of a different user that may be domain-joined. By compromising the other domain-joined user, you can then begin enumerating other users of the domain and hopefully leak information from the domain controller. Furthermore, you can use malicious SMB shares to spread malware as hta macro payloads in Word documents to trick the client's employees into loading them. Outside of using tools like Responder to coordinate with SMB relays, or generating MOF files and adding them to the share, or using SMB named pipe exploits to compromise domain-joined users as a non-domain-joined user. Less