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Glossary Term Silver Ticket Attack

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What is Silver Ticket Attack?

A Silver Ticket attack forges a Kerberos service ticket using a service account hash to impersonate users for a specific service without touching the DC.

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Understanding Silver Ticket Attack

A Silver Ticket attack is a Kerberos abuse technique in which an attacker who has obtained the NTLM hash of a service account forges a Ticket Granting Service ticket to impersonate any user when accessing that specific service. Unlike a Golden Ticket, which forges Ticket Granting Tickets using the krbtgt account hash and grants domain-wide access, a Silver Ticket is scoped to a single service and never contacts the domain controller, making it stealthier and harder to detect.

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