Extracting Managed Identity Certificates from the Azure Arc Service

Explores hosting red team phishing pages and payloads on Azure services under Microsoft's trusted domains, using their good reputation to slip past web filters as domain fronting fades.

Shows how Azure VM managed identities with excessive permissions enable privilege escalation: anyone with command execution on a VM can request its token and act with the identity's assigned roles.

Outlines five cloud security challenges—shadow IT, attacker-defender resource asymmetry, catastrophic misconfigurations—and argues purpose-built cloud penetration testing is the way to address them.

Compares cloud penetration testing across AWS and Azure, explaining the shared responsibility model and why platform-specific nuances matter for methodology and cloud security maturity.

From command execution on an Azure App Services host, attackers can inspect the environment, reach storage and Azure SQL, and abuse Managed Identity tokens to access Key Vaults and escalate.

Stolen Azure Container Registry admin credentials enable Docker login, image and tag enumeration via Registry REST APIs, and pulling containers to hunt secrets; MicroBurst's Get-AzACR automates it.