The Windows File System For Penetration Testing 🗃️

Learn about Windows file systems, specifically NTFS, formatting, file tables, and MFT records, and understand their usefulness to penetration testers.

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Welcome to The Windows File System for Penetration Testing. This article explores analyzing and exploiting the Windows file system during penetration testing. Understanding its structure, permissions, and key directories helps testers identify vulnerabilities and uncover sensitive data. Attackers often exploit misconfigurations and weak permissions to gain access. By mastering these techniques, ethical hackers can enhance security. Let’s dive in! 🚀

📂What Is NTFS?

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So NTFS is the type of file system that Windows uses. NTFS in a nutshell, is also called new technology file systems, or sometimes just called the Windows NT file system. It’s built proprietary by Microsoft. It’s used in most common recent versions of Windows, and it is a journal-based file system. So what that means is, is…