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I don't know why this was downvoted, because that is precisely what we did.

I used 'hashcat', which is an open-source tool available on GitHub.

A few hours of GPU time will reverse about 50-80% of typical NT-hashed passwords, and 90% or more given a few days or weeks.

Once you have passwords of admin users or service accounts, you can use those to "trawl through" servers looking for plain-text passwords in scripts, scheduled tasks, documentation, source code, etc...



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