Procedure examples

Daserf leverages Mimikatz and Windows Credential Editor to steal credentials.

PoetRAT used voStro.exe, a compiled pypykatz (Python version of Mimikatz), to steal credentials.

Qilin can employ an embedded Mimikatz module to dump LSASS memory.

CozyCar has executed Mimikatz to harvest stored credentials from the victim and further victim penetration.

Lizar can run Mimikatz to harvest credentials.

Net Crawler uses credential dumpers such as Mimikatz and Windows Credential Editor to extract cached credentials from Windows systems.

Sliver has a built-in `procdump` command allowing for retrieval of memory from processes such as `lsass.exe` for credential harvesting.

SILENTTRINITY can create a memory dump of LSASS via the `MiniDumpWriteDump Win32` API call.

PowerSploit contains a collection of Exfiltration modules that can harvest credentials using Mimikatz.

Windows Credential Editor can dump credentials.

SecretsDump and Mimikatz modules within Impacket can perform credential dumping to obtain account and password information.

Lslsass can dump active logon session password hashes from the lsass process.

Empire contains an implementation of Mimikatz to gather credentials from memory.

PoshC2 contains an implementation of Mimikatz to gather credentials from memory.

Mimikatz performs credential dumping to obtain account and password information useful in gaining access to additional systems and enterprise network resources. It contains functionality to acquire information about credentials in many ways, including from the LSASS Memory.

LaZagne can perform credential dumping from memory to obtain account and password information.

Pupy can execute Lazagne as well as Mimikatz using PowerShell.

During FrostyGoop Incident, the adversary retrieved the contents of the Security Account Manager (SAM) hive in the victim environment for credential capture.

During Operation Digital Eye, threat actors used `reg save` to retrieve credentials from the Security Account Manager (SAM) database.

During Operation CuckooBees, the threat actors leveraged a custom tool to dump OS credentials and used following commands: `reg save HKLM\\SYSTEM system.hiv`, `reg save HKLM\\SAM sam.hiv`, and `reg save HKLM\\SECURITY security.hiv`, to dump SAM, SYSTEM and SECURITY hives.

During APT28 Nearest Neighbor Campaign, APT28 used the following commands to dump SAM, SYSTEM, and SECURITY hives: reg save hklm\sam, reg save hklm\system, and reg save hklm\security.

During the 2025 Poland Wiper Attacks, the adversaries had stolen Security Account Manager (SAM) and SYSTEM registry hives.

During Night Dragon, threat actors dumped account hashes using gsecdump.

During C0017, APT41 copied the `SAM` and `SYSTEM` Registry hives for credential harvesting.

GALLIUM used reg commands to dump specific hives from the Windows Registry, such as the SAM hive, and obtain password hashes.

APT41 extracted user account data from the Security Account Managerr (SAM), making a copy of this database from the registry using the reg save command or by exploiting volume shadow copies.

Dragonfly has dropped and executed SecretsDump to dump password hashes.

menuPass has used a modified version of pentesting tools wmiexec.vbs and secretsdump.py to dump credentials.

Ke3chang has dumped credentials, including by using gsecdump.

APT29 has used the `reg save` command to save registry hives.

MirrorFace has used vssadmin to copy registry hives including SAM.

Ember Bear acquires victim credentials by extracting registry hives such as the Security Account Manager through commands such as reg save.

Agrius dumped the SAM file on victim machines to capture credentials.

APT5 has copied and exfiltrated the SAM Registry hive from targeted systems.

Wizard Spider has acquired credentials from the SAM/SECURITY registry hives.

Daggerfly used Reg to dump the Security Account Manager (SAM) hive from victim machines for follow-on credential extraction.

Threat Group-3390 actors have used gsecdump to dump credentials. They have also dumped credentials from domain controllers.

FIN13 has extracted the SAM and SYSTEM registry hives using the `reg.exe` binary for obtaining password hashes from a compromised machine.

CosmicDuke collects Windows account hashes.

HOPLIGHT has the capability to harvest credentials and passwords from the SAM database.

Remsec can dump the SAM database.

Cobalt Strike can recover hashed passwords.

IceApple's Credential Dumper module can dump encrypted password hashes from SAM registry keys, including `HKLM\SAM\SAM\Domains\Account\F` and `HKLM\SAM\SAM\Domains\Account\Users\*\V`.

Password stealer and NTLM stealer modules in CozyCar harvest stored credentials from the victim, including credentials used as part of Windows NTLM user authentication.

POWERTON has the ability to dump password hashes.

Mivast has the capability to gather NTLM password information.

SecretsDump and Mimikatz modules within Impacket can perform credential dumping to obtain account and password information.

Fgdump can dump Windows password hashes.

pwdump can be used to dump credentials from the SAM.

Mimikatz performs credential dumping to obtain account and password information useful in gaining access to additional systems and enterprise network resources. It contains functionality to acquire information about credentials in many ways, including from the SAM table.