H3XAOperational intelligence
Live analytical pictureEvidence before assessment
TypeTechnique
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First seen2026-08-14
Last seen2026-08-14

Confidence

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The Windows security identifier (SID) is a unique value that identifies a user or group account. SIDs are used by Windows security in both security descriptors and access tokens. (Citation: Microsoft SID) An account can hold additional SIDs in the SID-History Active Directory attribute (Citation: Microsoft SID-History Attribute), allowing inter-operable account migration between domains (e.g., all values in SID-History are included in access tokens). Adversaries may use this mechanism for privilege escalation. With Domain Administrator (or equivalent) rights, harvested or well-known SID values (Citation: Microsoft Well Known SIDs Jun 2017) may be inserted into SID-History to enable impersonation of arbitrary users/groups such as Enterprise Administrators. This manipulation may result in elevated access to local resources and/or access to otherwise inaccessible domains via lateral movement techniques such as [Remote Services](https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1021), [Windows Admin Shares](https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1077), or [Windows Remote Management](https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1028).

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Relationships

revoked-byTechnique
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References

mitre-attack
T1178
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Microsoft SID
https://msdn.microsoft.com/library/windows/desktop/aa379571.aspx
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Microsoft SID-History Attribute
https://msdn.microsoft.com/library/ms679833.aspx
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Microsoft Well Known SIDs Jun 2017
https://support.microsoft.com/help/243330/well-known-security-identifiers-in-windows-operating-systems
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Microsoft Get-ADUser
https://technet.microsoft.com/library/ee617241.aspx
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AdSecurity SID History Sept 2015
https://adsecurity.org/?p=1772
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Microsoft DsAddSidHistory
https://msdn.microsoft.com/library/ms677982.aspx
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