Uncovering indirect attack paths to virtualized domain controllers in Azure
Within Netwrix Security Research, we were helping a customer with an Entra ID assessment and knew they'd already done AD tiering on-prem. We also knew they had domain controllers virtualized in Azure, but it was hard to tell which Windows Server was actually a DC. We figured out that Azure Run Command lets you run commands as SYSTEM, so we used that to do reconnaissance and identify the DCs.