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Privilege Escalation Techniques

You're reading from   Privilege Escalation Techniques Learn the art of exploiting Windows and Linux systems

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801078870
Length 340 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Alexis Ahmed Alexis Ahmed
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: Gaining Access and Local Enumeration
2. Chapter 1: Introduction to Privilege Escalation FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Setting Up Our Lab 4. Chapter 3: Gaining Access (Exploitation) 5. Chapter 4: Performing Local Enumeration 6. Section 2: Windows Privilege Escalation
7. Chapter 5: Windows Kernel Exploits 8. Chapter 6: Impersonation Attacks 9. Chapter 7: Windows Password Mining 10. Chapter 8: Exploiting Services 11. Chapter 9: Privilege Escalation through the Windows Registry 12. Section 3: Linux Privilege Escalation
13. Chapter 10: Linux Kernel Exploits 14. Chapter 11: Linux Password Mining 15. Chapter 12: Scheduled Tasks 16. Chapter 13: Exploiting SUID Binaries 17. Other Books You May Enjoy

Dumping Windows hashes

In this section, we will take a closer look at Windows passwords and how they are hashed. The hash dumping process on Windows can be performed by using various techniques and tools, most of which we will explore in this section. Before we begin using any tools or techniques, we need to take a brief look at how Windows passwords are stored.

SAM database

Security Account Manager (SAM) is a database that is responsible for managing user accounts and passwords on Windows. All the passwords that are stored in the SAM database are hashed. Authentication and verification of user credentials is facilitated by the local security authority (LSA).

The SAM database is stored in the Windows Registry and can be accessed from the following location:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SAM

Now that we know where Windows user credentials are stored, we need to take a closer look at LanMan (LM) and NTLM authentication.

LM and NTLM hashing

LM is an authentication protocol...

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