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Shadow Credentials
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HTB Fluffy: From Low-Priv Creds to Domain Admin via CVE-2025-24071 & Shadow Credentials
Starting with low-privileged domain credentials, the attack chain exploits CVE-2025-24071 to leak an NTLM hash, cracks it, abuses GenericAll ACLs, uses Shadow Credentials to take over service accounts, and finally forges an Administrator certificate via ADCS for Domain Admin.
HTB Logging: Credential Exposure → Shadow Credentials → DLL Injection → WSUS Poisoning
Starting with a low-privileged user, SMB enumeration reveals hardcoded credentials in a log file. Password pattern inference leads to an updated credential. GenericWrite over a gMSA enables Shadow Credentials and WinRM access. DLL injection via a scheduled task gives lateral movement, and WSUS poisoning combined with ADIDNS spoofing and ADCS certificate abuse yields SYSTEM.