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This skill guides comprehensive Active Directory (AD) security assessment using industry-standard tools like PingCastle, BloodHound, and Purple Knight. It helps identify critical misconfigurations, excessive privileges, weak Kerberos settings, and potential lateral movement paths. Ideal for penetration testing, security audits, and incident response to proactively secure enterprise identity management systems.

A comprehensive guide detailing the Kerberoasting attack process, a critical post-exploitation technique in Active Directory environments. This method targets service accounts by requesting TGS tickets for accounts with Service Principal Names (SPNs), allowing attackers to capture encrypted tickets for offline password cracking. Essential for security assessments and red team simulations.

A comprehensive skill for auditing service accounts across complex enterprise environments, including Active Directory, major cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP), and databases. It identifies risks such as orphaned accounts, over-privileged access, and non-compliant credentials, ensuring adherence to industry standards like SOX, PCI DSS, and HIPAA. Used during security assessments and compliance reviews.

This skill guide provides a comprehensive framework for automating the secure rotation of service account credentials. It addresses the challenge of managing long-lived secrets across diverse environments, including Active Directory, AWS, GCP, Azure, and databases. By implementing centralized secrets management (like HashiCorp Vault) and automated workflows, users can systematically eliminate stale credentials, dramatically reducing the risk of security breaches and non-compliance.

A comprehensive, NIST/CISA-aligned workflow for structured recovery following a ransomware incident. It covers critical steps including environment isolation, forensic evidence preservation, Active Directory restoration (DSRM, krbtgt reset), backup integrity validation, and phased, dependency-based system rebuild. Essential for post-incident disaster recovery planning.

This tool automates the deployment of deception-based honeytokens within Active Directory environments. It creates fake privileged accounts, decoy SPNs for Kerberoasting detection, and misleading GPOs with password traps. Designed for advanced security teams to detect reconnaissance, lateral movement, and credential theft with high fidelity.

This framework detects NTLM relay attacks across Active Directory environments by correlating Windows Security Event 4624 (LogonType 3). It identifies key indicators such as IP-to-hostname mismatches, Responder/LLMNR poisoning artifacts, and non-enforced SMB/LDAP signing, providing comprehensive threat detection for T1557.001.

A comprehensive guide to hardening Windows Active Directory environments using Group Policy Objects (GPO). This skill configures multiple layers of defense, including AppLocker, Controlled Folder Access, and Attack Surface Reduction (ASR) rules, to prevent ransomware execution paths, block unauthorized file modifications, and restrict lateral movement across the domain.

Comprehensive reference for red teamers and penetration testers on executing Active Directory attacks, covering reconnaissance, credential harvesting, Kerberos abuses, lateral movement, and domain persistence techniques against Windows domains.

Methodology for red team testing of on-prem Active Directory, hybrid AD/Entra ID, and ADCS. Covers reconnaissance, credential abuse, privilege escalation, lateral movement, persistence, trust abuse, and Defender for Identity evasion.

A comprehensive playbook detailing advanced techniques for exploiting misconfigured Active Directory Access Control Lists (ACLs). It covers BloodHound enumeration, abusing dangerous ACE types (GenericAll, WriteDACL), conducting DCSync attacks, leveraging shadow credentials, and exploiting GPO/LAPS weaknesses for privilege escalation and lateral movement in a deep dive for security professionals.

A comprehensive playbook detailing advanced attack techniques against Active Directory Certificate Services (AD CS). It covers exploiting misconfigured templates (ESC1-ESC13), performing NTLM relay attacks, and achieving privilege escalation via CA officer abuse. This guide is essential for offensive security practitioners conducting penetration testing simulations.