Skills Engineering Windows Identity and Pivoting Chains Analysis

Windows Identity and Pivoting Chains Analysis

v20260803
competition-identity-windows
This specialized skill is designed for deep forensic analysis in complex Windows environments, crucial for CTF and red teaming. It traces identity flows, including Active Directory (AD) origins, Kerberos ticket lifecycles, and OAuth authorization claims. Use it to correlate host artifacts (LSA, DPAPI, Sysmon) with identity evidence to map complete lateral movement and privilege escalation chains.
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Overview

Competition Identity Windows

Use this skill only as a downstream specialization after $ctf-sandbox-orchestrator is already active and has established sandbox assumptions, node ownership, and evidence priorities. If that has not happened yet, return to $ctf-sandbox-orchestrator first.

Use this skill when the challenge revolves around identity flow, replayable credentials, Windows host artifacts, enterprise mail, or lateral movement.

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Quick Start

  1. Map the identity or pivot chain before diving into every host artifact.
  2. Separate credential possession from accepted privilege.
  3. Correlate identity evidence, host evidence, and mail evidence on one timeline.
  4. Keep tickets, SIDs, event IDs, mailbox rules, and pivot hosts in compact evidence blocks.
  5. Reproduce the privilege edge or mail effect from the smallest viable chain.

Workflow

1. Identity And AD

  • Trace principal origin, sync path, token or ticket minting, claims transformation, group resolution, and accepting service.
  • When Kerberos matters, record ticket type, SPN, delegation mode, PAC or group data, encryption type, and cache location.

2. Windows Host And Pivoting

  • Correlate SAM, SECURITY, SYSTEM, NTDS, DPAPI, LSA secrets, ETW, Sysmon, PowerShell, services, tasks, WMI, WinRM, SMB, and RDP as one pivot graph.
  • Express movement as a concrete chain: foothold -> recovered artifact -> replay path -> pivot host -> resulting capability.

3. Enterprise Messaging

  • Keep phishing lures, consent logs, mailbox rules, and identity-provider events tied together so the mail path and privilege path stay connected.

Read This Reference

  • Load references/identity-windows.md for the ticket, host, and enterprise-messaging checklist.
  • If the task is primarily a host-to-host pivot, Kerberos replay, or Windows privilege chain, prefer $competition-windows-pivot.
  • If the task is specifically about constrained delegation, unconstrained delegation, RBCD, S4U, or ticket-acceptance proof, prefer $competition-kerberos-delegation.
  • If the task is specifically about AD CS, certificate templates, EKUs, enrollment rights, PKINIT, or cert-based privilege, prefer $competition-ad-certificate-abuse.
  • If the task is specifically about OAuth or OIDC claims, callback flow, scopes, consent, or accepted login identity, prefer $competition-oauth-oidc-chain.
  • If the task is specifically about DPAPI masterkeys, vault blobs, browser or vault secrets, backup-key use, or protected-secret-to-access chains, prefer $competition-dpapi-credential-chain.
  • If the task is specifically about LSASS memory, ticket caches, LUID-linked material, DPAPI context, or replayable host credential artifacts, prefer $competition-lsass-ticket-material.
  • If the task is specifically about mailbox rules, forwarding, OAuth consent, delegate access, or transport-level mail abuse, prefer $competition-mailbox-abuse.
  • If the task is specifically about forced authentication, relay targets, or proving which service accepts relayed auth, prefer $competition-relay-coercion-chain.

What To Preserve

  • SIDs, SPNs, ticket fields, event IDs, mailbox rules, and replay points
  • Exact host-to-host pivot order and the service that accepts the credential or ticket
  • Raw artifacts, parsed summaries, and derived timelines as separate outputs
Info
Category Engineering
Name competition-identity-windows
Version v20260803
Size 3.07KB
Updated At 2026-08-04
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