---
id: 8433
title: "Windows Privilege Escalation Part 2: Domain Admin Privileges"
source_domain: netspi.com
source_url: "https://www.netspi.com/blog/technical-blog/network-pentesting/windows-privilege-escalation-part-2-domain-admin-privileges/"
published_at: "2009-10-05T00:00:00Z"
tags: ["active-directory", "privilege-escalation", "windows", "penetration-testing", "service-accounts", "domain-admin", "lm-hashes"]
phying_url: "https://phying.com/item/8433"
lang: en
---

# Windows Privilege Escalation Part 2: Domain Admin Privileges

## Summary

This post focuses on obtaining domain administrative privileges from a local administrator or domain user account. Once the initial steps have been taken to obtain local administrative access on a Windows operating system, the natural next steps are to gain domain user and domain administrative privileges.

## Intelligence Metadata

- **Sources:** netspi.com
- **Published:** 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z
- **Original:** https://www.netspi.com/blog/technical-blog/network-pentesting/windows-privilege-escalation-part-2-domain-admin-privileges/
- **Phying News:** https://phying.com/item/8433