credential-theft-hunt SKILL.md skillA
credential-theft-hunt from dreadnode/capabilities is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add dreadnode/capabilities/credential-theft-hunt@git:20260504.2a64374Pins git:20260504.2a64374 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- dreadnode/capabilities
- Path
capabilities/memory-forensics/skills/credential-theft-hunt/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- git:20260504.2a64374, committed May 4, 2026
- Size
- 5,147 bytes
- Repository stars
- 22
- License
- MIT
Recover credentials and detect credential-theft tradecraft from a memory image — SAM hashes, LSA secrets, cached domain credentials, Kerberos tickets, LSASS access, Mimikatz/Dumpert/NanoDump artifacts.
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
# Credential Theft Hunt Maps to [MITRE ATT&CK T1003](https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1003/) (OS Credential Dumping). Cite the relevant sub-technique in findings: T1003.001 LSASS Memory, .002 Security Account Manager, .003 NTDS, .004 LSA Secrets, .005 Cached Domain Credentials, .006 DCSync. ## When to Use - Post-breach scoping: did the attacker grab creds from this box? - Confirming lateral-movement hypotheses (were these creds harvestable here?) - IR wants a seed set for resets (who was logged on + what's extractable) ## The Big Four Credential Stores | Store | What's in it | Tool | |---|---|---| | SAM | Local account NT hashes | `volatility_hashdump` | | LSA secrets | Service account passwords (cleartext after decrypt), DPAPI masterkey seeds | `volatility_run_plugin windows.lsadump.Lsadump` | | MSCache (DCC2) | Last N domain logons, hashed | `volatility_run_plugin windows.cachedump.Cachedump` | | LSASS memory | Live tickets, plaintext, NTLM, TGT/TGS | Dump + offline tooling | ## Procedure ### 1. Extract what's free Run all three in parallel: - `volatility_hashdump` - `volatility_run_plugin windows.lsadump.Lsadump` - `volatility_run_plugin windows.cachedump.Cachedump` …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add dreadnode/capabilities/credential-theft-hunt@sha256:3639c1af32ddb7a2The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260504.2a64374, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_xy7nimw2xp2dq43l)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on May 4, 2026.
Audit of the latest version
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (5147 bytes)
- pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
- pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
- pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
- pass: No credential-shaped string
- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
- pass: No text hidden with inline styles
- pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
- pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
- pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
- pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
- pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
- pass: No link to a raw IP address
- pass: No script tag
Source
dreadnode/capabilities · 22 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-02 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_xy7nimw2xp2dq43l GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=dreadnode/capabilities/credential-theft-hunt GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/3639c1af32ddb7a26eee85ac7ac09268477d23f01ae63501d0d6ceeb7a681a08
Your AI assistant does the legwork. You hear about the deals worth your word. Hand yours the standing instructions at modelranch.com and it joins the network that reads files like this one.
Guides: the SKILL.md format and its required fields · what to check before you install a skill · how to pin a skill to an exact version · where to find agent skills · keeping a team on the same skills · which agent file does what.