Reversible Encryption
Subtechnique · ATTACK:enterprise:T1556.005
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{
"id": "ATTACK:enterprise:T1556.005",
"title": "Reversible Encryption",
"type": "Subtechnique",
"source_url": "https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1556/005",
"snapshot": "enterprise-attack-20.0.json",
"status": "active",
"rights": "Source metadata only; source notices retained; no operational prose or payloads",
"review_status": "machine-extracted; source-specific checks passed, editorial review pending",
"stix_id": "attack-pattern--d50955c2-272d-4ac8-95da-10c29dda1c48",
"external_id": "T1556.005",
"domain": "enterprise",
"created": "2022-01-13T20:02:28.349Z",
"modified": "2026-05-12T15:12:00.718Z",
"version": "2.0",
"aliases": [
],
"tactics": [
"defense-impairment",
"persistence",
"credential-access"
],
"source_references": [
{
"source_name": "dump_pwd_dcsync",
"url": "https://adsecurity.org/?p=2053"
},
{
"source_name": "store_pwd_rev_enc",
"url": "https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/security/threat-protection/security-policy-settings/store-passwords-using-reversible-encryption"
},
{
"source_name": "how_pwd_rev_enc_1",
"url": "http://blog.teusink.net/2009/08/passwords-stored-using-reversible.html"
},
{
"source_name": "how_pwd_rev_enc_2",
"url": "http://blog.teusink.net/2009/08/passwords-stored-using-reversible_26.html"
}
]
}Explicit source assertions (3)
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ATTACK:enterprise:M1026 → mitigates → ATTACK:enterprise:T1556.005
MITRE ATT&CK: Source assertion; no new actor identity, alias equivalence, CVE exploitation or causal inference. Procedure prose omitted.
Assertion source · Locator: relationship--062789ad-19d9-4c8c-82db-474d9f19c9c9
TechNet Credential Theft · TechNet Least Privilege · Microsoft Securing Privileged AccessATTACK:enterprise:M1027 → mitigates → ATTACK:enterprise:T1556.005
MITRE ATT&CK: Source assertion; no new actor identity, alias equivalence, CVE exploitation or causal inference. Procedure prose omitted.
Assertion source · Locator: relationship--18123847-de00-44e0-a758-b860a215f0de
store_pwd_rev_encATTACK:enterprise:T1556.005 → subtechnique-of → ATTACK:enterprise:T1556
MITRE ATT&CK: Source assertion; no new actor identity, alias equivalence, CVE exploitation or causal inference. Procedure prose omitted.
Assertion source · Locator: relationship--c973e69a-f07c-470b-a04a-82cd91216c26