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Miriam C. Wiesner
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Miriam C. Wiesner

Miriam C. Wiesner is a senior security researcher at Microsoft, with over 15 years of experience in IT and IT security. She has held various positions, including administrator/system engineer, software developer, premier field engineer, program manager, security consultant, and pentester. She is also a renowned creator of open source tools based in PowerShell, including EventList and JEAnalyzer. She has been invited multiple times to present the research behind her tools at many international conferences, such as Black Hat (the US, Europe, and Asia), PSConfEU, and MITRE ATT&CK workshop. Outside of work, Miriam is a dedicated wife and mother, residing with her family near Nuremberg, Germany.
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Accessing AAD using PowerShell

Of course, we all know the Azure portal; surely attackers can also take advantage of seamless SSO and access the portal using the user’s browser. There’s even a way to run code directly from the Azure portal using Azure Cloud Shell. But these methods are hard to automate and attackers would struggle to stay undetected. The following screenshot shows how Azure Cloud Shell can be run from the Azure portal:

Figure 7.6 – Using Azure Cloud Shell from the Azure portal

Figure 7.6 – Using Azure Cloud Shell from the Azure portal

But there are also some ways to access AAD using code or the command line directly from your computer:

Originally, these methods were developed to support automation and simplify administration tasks, but as usual, they can also be abused by attackers.

We will not dive deeper into Azure .NET in this chapter. Azure .NET is a set of...

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Miriam C. Wiesner is a senior security researcher at Microsoft, with over 15 years of experience in IT and IT security. She has held various positions, including administrator/system engineer, software developer, premier field engineer, program manager, security consultant, and pentester. She is also a renowned creator of open source tools based in PowerShell, including EventList and JEAnalyzer. She has been invited multiple times to present the research behind her tools at many international conferences, such as Black Hat (the US, Europe, and Asia), PSConfEU, and MITRE ATT&CK workshop. Outside of work, Miriam is a dedicated wife and mother, residing with her family near Nuremberg, Germany.
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