Adversaries may enumerate local drives, disks, and/or volumes and their attributes like total or free space and volume serial number. This can be done to prepare for ransomware-related encryption, to perform Lateral Movement, or as a precursor to Direct Volume Access.

On ESXi systems, adversaries may use Hypervisor CLI commands such as esxcli to list storage connected to the host as well as .vmdk files.^[1],[2]

On Windows systems, adversaries can use wmic logicaldisk get to find information about local network drives. They can also use Get-PSDrive in PowerShell to retrieve drives and may additionally use Windows API functions such as GetDriveType.^[3],[4]

Linux has commands such as parted, lsblk, fdisk, lshw, and df that can list information about disk partitions such as size, type, file system types, and free space. The command diskutil on MacOS can be used to list disks while system_profiler SPStorageDataType can additionally show information such as a volume’s mount path, file system, and the type of drive in the system.

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) cloud providers also have commands for storage discovery such as describe volume in AWS, gcloud compute disks list in GCP, and az disk list in Azure.^[5],[6],[7]

References

1. Mina Naiim. (2021, May 28). DarkSide on Linux: Virtual Machines Targeted. Retrieved March 26, 2025.
2. Junestherry Dela Cruz. (2022, January 24). Analysis and Impact of LockBit Ransomware’s First Linux and VMware ESXi Variant. Retrieved March 26, 2025.
3. Lenart Bermejo, Sunny Lu, Ted Lee. (2024, September 9). Earth Preta Evolves its Attacks with New Malware and Strategies. Retrieved August 4, 2025.
4. Ankur Saini, Charlie Gardner. (2023, June 28). Charming Kitten Updates POWERSTAR with an InterPlanetary Twist. Retrieved September 25, 2025.
5. AWS. (n.d.). describe-volumes. Retrieved October 20, 2025.
6. Google Cloud. (n.d.). gcloud compute disks list. Retrieved October 20, 2025.
7. Azure. (n.d.). az disk. Retrieved October 20, 2025.

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