Dumps SAM hashes and LSA secrets (including cached creds) from the remote Windows target without executing any agent locally. This is done by remotely updating the registry key security descriptor, taking advantage of the WriteDACL privileges held by local administrators to set temporary read permissions. This can be disabled by setting the INLINE option to false and the module will fallback to the original implementation, which consists in saving the registry hives locally on the target (%SYSTEMROOT%\Temp\<random>.tmp), downloading the temporary hive files and reading the data from it. This temporary files are removed when its done. On domain controllers, secrets from Active Directory is extracted using [MS-DRDS] DRSGetNCChanges(), replicating the attributes we need to get SIDs, NTLM hashes, groups, password history, Kerberos keys and other interesting data. Note that the actual NTDS.dit file is not downloaded. Instead, the Directory Replication Service directly asks Active...
Dumps SAM hashes and LSA secrets (including cached creds) from the remote Windows target without executing any agent locally. This is done by remotely updating the registry key security descriptor, taking advantage of the WriteDACL privileges held by local administrators to set temporary read permissions. This can be disabled by setting the INLINE option to false and the module will fallback to the original implementation, which consists in saving the registry hives locally on the target (%SYSTEMROOT%\Temp\<random>.tmp), downloading the temporary hive files and reading the data from it. This temporary files are removed when its done. On domain controllers, secrets from Active Directory is extracted using [MS-DRDS] DRSGetNCChanges(), replicating the attributes we need to get SIDs, NTLM hashes, groups, password history, Kerberos keys and other interesting data. Note that the actual NTDS.dit file is not downloaded. Instead, the Directory Replication Service directly asks Active Directory through RPC requests. This Metasploit modules takes care of starting or enabling the Remote Registry service if needed. It will restore the service to its original state when its done. This is a port of the great Impacket secretsdump.py code written by Alberto Solino.
