Summary

Throughout this chapter, we have looked at various tools and techniques for harvesting credentials and tickets. We leveraged the loot that we captured to escalate our privileges, and then we proceeded to pivot through the firewall that we installed and configured in the first section of this chapter. I know I said it earlier, but I am going to say it again: as my late friend Trevor would say, learning how to pivot is one of the most fundamental skills to develop and practice as a pentester and never forget Smashburger. I am hoping that as you read and worked through this chapter, you gained a better appreciation for why it is so critical to have access to a lab to spin systems up and tear them down, navigate in and around them, and mirror them to replicate your customer's environment.

Now that we have gone this far and we are on the operational side of the network, in the next chapter, we will be interacting with the physical process by using the user interface of...