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Practical Attacks against NTLMv1

1.1      Introduction This blog is meant to serve as a guide for practical exploitation of systems that allow for the NTLMv1 authentication protocol. While NTLMv1 is hardly ever needed anymore, a surprising number of organizations still use it, perhaps unknowingly. There are however some VPN products that still currently instruct their users to downgrade NLTM...

Manipulating User Passwords Without Mimikatz

There are two common reasons you may want to change a user’s password during a penetration test: You have their NT hash but not their plaintext password. Changing their password to a known plaintext value can allow you to access services in which Pass-the-Hash is not an option. You don’t have their NT hash or...