mimikatz
A little tool to play with Windows security (by gentilkiwi)
impacket
Impacket is a collection of Python classes for working with network protocols. [Moved to: https://github.com/SecureAuthCorp/impacket] (by CoreSecurity)
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| mimikatz | impacket | |
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| 25 | 2 | |
| 18,730 | 7,374 | |
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| 5.2 | 0.0 | |
| 4 months ago | over 2 years ago | |
| C | Python | |
| - | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
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and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-02-15.
- is anyone here using the windows firewalls on their clients to help with/prevent/make it harder to do lateral movements?
- Ok, thanks I guess
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4 AD Attacks and How to Protect Against Them
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Compromising Plaintext Passwords in Active Directory
Typically, Mimikatz is used to extract NTLM password hashes or Kerberos tickets from memory. However, one of its lesser-known capabilities is the ability to extract plaintext passwords from dumps created for the LSASS process. This means that an attacker can compromise plaintext passwords without running any nefarious code on domain controllers. Dump files can be created interactively or using ProcDump , and in either case, the activity is unlikely to be flagged by anti-virus software. Once the dumps are created, they can be copied off the domain controller and the plaintext credentials can be harvested using Mimikatz offline.
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How to Detect Pass-the-Ticket Attacks
Mimikatz can be used to perform pass-the-ticket, but in this post, we wanted to show how to execute the attack using another tool, Rubeus , lets you perform Kerberos based attacks. Rubeus is a C# toolset written by harmj0y and is based on the Kekeo project by Benjamin Delpy, the author of Mimikatz .
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What is DCShadow Attack and How to Defend Against It
What is DCShadow? DCShadow is a command in the Mimikatz tool that enables an adversary to register a rogue domain controller and replicate malicious changes across the domain.
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Stealing User Passwords with Mimikatz DCSync
Mimikatz provides a variety of ways to extract and manipulate credentials, but one of the most alarming is the DCSync command. Using this command, an adversary can simulate the behavior of a domain controller and ask other domain controllers to replicate information — including user password data. In fact, attackers can get any account’s NTLM password hash or even its plaintext password, including the password of the KRBTGT account, which enables them to create Golden Tickets.
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Domain Compromise with a Golden Ticket Attack
Using Mimikatz , it is possible to leverage the password of the KRBTGT account to create forged Kerberos Ticket Granting Tickets (TGTs) which can be used to request Ticket Granting Server (TGS) tickets for any service on any computer in the domain.
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Manipulating User Passwords with Mimikatz
Using the ChangeNTLM and SetNTLM commands in Mimikatz , attackers can manipulate user passwords and escalate their privileges in Active Directory . Let’s take a look at these commands and what they do.
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Extracting Service Account Passwords with Kerberoasting
Mimikatz will extract local tickets and save them to disk for offline cracking. Simply install Mimikatz and issue a single command:
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Awesome Penetration Testing
impacket - Collection of Python classes for working with network protocols.
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Need help with Legacy
Impacket : https://github.com/CoreSecurity/impacket.git
What are some alternatives?
When comparing mimikatz and impacket you can also consider the following projects:
john - John the Ripper jumbo - advanced offline password cracker, which supports hundreds of hash and cipher types, and runs on many operating systems, CPUs, GPUs, and even some FPGAs
scapy - Scapy: the Python-based interactive packet manipulation program & library. Supports Python 2 & Python 3.
bettercap - The Swiss Army knife for 802.11, BLE, IPv4 and IPv6 networks reconnaissance and MITM attacks.
RustScan - 🤖 The Modern Port Scanner 🤖
Kaitai Struct - Kaitai Struct: declarative language to generate binary data parsers in C++ / C# / Go / Java / JavaScript / Lua / Nim / Perl / PHP / Python / Ruby
CVE-2021-1675 - C# and Impacket implementation of PrintNightmare CVE-2021-1675/CVE-2021-34527
Cppcheck - static analysis of C/C++ code
python-evtx - Pure Python parser for Windows Event Log files (.evtx)
impacket - Impacket is a collection of Python classes for working with network protocols.
RsaCtfTool - RSA attack tool (mainly for ctf) - retrieve private key from weak public key and/or uncipher data