Summary

As we saw in this chapter, there are many ways to attack VMs hosted in Azure. As a penetration tester, we need to be ready to attack VMs on multiple different levels. This could be at the platform level (running commands from the portal), the running operating system level (extracting credentials), or the operating system disk level (extracting hashes). All these skills combined will make us more well-rounded when attacking an Azure environment.

While VMs may have been one of the initial use cases of cloud services, more and more organizations are starting to build new applications as cloud-native deployments. This means that the applications depend on many of the platforms as a service resource in Azure. We will see many of the ways that we can attack those services in the next chapter.

In the following chapter, we will be taking a closer look at the Platform as a Service (PaaS) services in Azure, and how an attacker may be able to exploit configurations and gather credentials...