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Vulnerability Exploitation & Privilege Escalation
Question
Adam works as a Security Administrator for the Umbrella Inc. A project has been assigned to him to strengthen the security policies of the company, including its password policies. However, due to some old applications, Adam is only able to enforce a password group policy in Active Directory with a minimum of 10 characters. He informed the employees of the company, that the new password policy requires that everyone must have complex passwords with at least 14 characters. Adam wants to ensure that everyone is using complex passwords that meet the new security policy requirements. He logged on to one of the network's domain controllers and runs the following command: Which of the following actions will this command take?
Exhibit
Options
- ADumps the SAM password hashes to pwd.txt
- BDumps the SAM password file to pwd.txt
- CDumps the Active Directory password hashes to pwd.txt
- DThe password history file is transferred to pwd.txt
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Topics
#SAM database#password hash dumping#Active Directory#credential extraction