# Lateral Movement

The Adversary will try to move laterally in the environment in search for some critical
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servers/assets.
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• Some of the techniques that can be used are :
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• PowerShell Remoting
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• Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI)
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• Invoke-Mimikatz.ps1 etc
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• It is advised to choose a method which is stealth and leave almost no footprints on ANY
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machines the Adversary is targeting.

### PowerShell Remoting

It used WinRM protocol and runs by-default on TCP ports 5985 (HTTP) and 5986 (HTTPS)
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• It is a recommended way to manage Windows core servers.
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• This comes enabled by-default from Windows Server 2012.
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• Adversary uses this utility to connect to remote computers/servers and execute commands upon
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achieving high privileges.
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• Example : Invoke-Command, New-PSSession, Enter-PSSession

Configuration is easy “Enable-PSRemoting -SkipNetworkProfileCheck -Verbose -Force” as
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administrator.
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• It is used to run commands and scripts on :
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• Windows Servers/workstations
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• Linux machines too (PowerShell is Open-Source project)
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• Example commands :

```
$session = New-PSSession –Computername Windows-Server
Invoke-Command –Session $session –ScriptBlock {Whoami;hostname}
Enter-Pssession –Session $session -verbose
```

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