Question

After compromising a Windows workstation and gaining a foothold in the user's context, you want to recover the user's saved credentials from the Windows Credential Manager without cracking any hashes offline. The account is a standard domain user, and you already have an interactive session running as that user. Which post-exploitation approach will allow you to decrypt and recover these stored secrets?

Accepted Answer

Use the user's DPAPI master key, which is unlocked in the current logon session, to decrypt the Credential Manager blobs while running in the victim's context

Answer

Extract the SAM and SYSTEM registry hives and crack the local account NTLM hashes with a wordlist

Answer

Perform a DCSync against the domain controller to replicate the user's stored plaintext credentials

Answer

Dump LSASS and pass the recovered Kerberos TGT to a remote host to read the vault