Lateral Movement

Once you have infliterated a system within a domain, the next step is to move to other machines that are part of the domain and eventually the Domain Controller itself. This process is called lateral movement. There are bunch of ways in which lateral movement can be achieved and for each of these methods there are some basic information that you should have gathered using some of the commands and tools mentioned in the previous two sections.

These are some of the methods for lateral movement,

  • Pass the hash - Simply pass the hash in the place of a password to login to a systen

  • Overpass the hash

  • Pass the ticket

  • Distributed Component Object Model

  • Golden Ticket

  • Domain Controller Sync

  • Windows Management Instrumentation

  • PowerShell Remoting

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