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A pen tester is able to pull credential information from memory on a Windows system. Based on the command and output below, what advantage does this technique give a penetration tester when trying to access another windows system on the network?
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- AThe technique is more effective through perimeter firewalls than otherauthentication attacks.
- BIt allows the tester to escalate the privilege level of the account,
- CAccess to the system can be gained without password guessing or cracking.
- DSalts are removed from the hashes to allow for faster, offline cracking
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