Access Token Manipulation: SID-History Injection

Created the Friday 27 January 2023. Updated 1 year, 1 month ago.

Adversaries may use SID-History Injection to escalate privileges and bypass access controls. The Windows security identifier (SID) is a unique value that identifies a user or group account. SIDs are used by Windows security in both security descriptors and access tokens. An account can hold additional SIDs in the SID-History Active Directory attribute, allowing inter-operable account migration between domains (e.g., all values in SID-History are included in access tokens).

With Domain Administrator (or equivalent) rights, harvested or well-known SID values may be inserted into SID-History to enable impersonation of arbitrary users/groups such as Enterprise Administrators. This manipulation may result in elevated access to local resources and/or access to otherwise inaccessible domains via lateral movement techniques such as Remote Services, SMB/Windows Admin Shares, or Windows Remote Management.

Technique Identifier

T1134.005

Technique Tags

Defense Evasion Privilege Escalation bypass access controls Windows security identifier (SID) SID-History Active Directory impersonate users lateral movement MISC::AddSid Mimikatz

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