When doing Windows or Active Directory security assessments, retrieving secrets stored on a compromised host constitutes a key step to move laterally within the network or increase one's privileges. The infamous secretsdump.py script from the impacket suite is a well-known tool to extract various sensitive secrets from a machine, including user hashes, the base secret for the DPAPI encryption mechanism, service accounts cleartext credentials, and more. As years passed, security products began to effectively detect and block the execution of this script, which led us to have a closer look at the inner workings of secretsdump and devise a new version that is currently less prone to detection.
