Black box penetration test

A black box penetration test is an attacker-simulated test in which the penetration tester will act as a threat actor with no internal information regarding the targeted systems, networks, or applications. This type of testing really focuses on the first phase of penetration testing—reconnaissance. The more a pen tester can gain information about a target organization, the better the results will be. In this type of test, the pen tester is not provided with any architectural diagrams, layouts of the network, or any source code files.