# Windows Remote Management

Adversaries may use Valid Accounts to interact with remote systems using Windows Remote Management (WinRM). The adversary may then perform actions as the logged-on user.

WinRM is the name of both a Windows service and a protocol that allows a user to interact with a remote system(e.g., run an executable, modify the Registry, modify services). It may be called with the winrm command or by any number of programs such as PowerShell.

**Example**

Here we have a technique that will allow us to lateral move onto a different machine using he WinRM service, this can be easily taken advantage with the use of PowerShell

We can verify if this is available on our target with the **Test-WsMan** Cmdlet

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**Usually Administrators can log in to a workstation where they have administrator privileges or sometimes we can find users that have this privileges as well.**

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Now will remote onto the target machine, assuming  we have credentials

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And Login successfully

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