---
id: 8143
title: "Attacks Against Windows PXE Boot Images"
source_domain: netspi.com
source_url: "https://www.netspi.com/blog/technical-blog/network-pentesting/attacks-against-windows-pxe-boot-images/"
published_at: "2018-02-13T00:00:00Z"
tags: ["windows", "lateral-movement", "pxe", "credential-harvesting", "network-pentesting", "mdt"]
phying_url: "https://phying.com/item/8143"
lang: en
---

# Attacks Against Windows PXE Boot Images

## Summary

Outlines attacks on insecure Windows PXE deployments: backdooring images during setup, scraping VM memory and Unattend files for credentials, and dumping SAM hashes for domain takeover.

## Intelligence Metadata

- **Sources:** netspi.com
- **Published:** 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z
- **Original:** https://www.netspi.com/blog/technical-blog/network-pentesting/attacks-against-windows-pxe-boot-images/
- **Phying News:** https://phying.com/item/8143