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To compare Active Directory accounts against breached passwords you need access to your Active Directory with a specific privileged account, a password list with NTLM hashes and some PowerShell commands. But why should you do this? Password hashes of Domain accounts can be dumped locally from SAM, memory, remotely and …

Windows pwnage courtesy of trusted Windows binaries Introduction If you’ve ever tried to run a command prompt as administrator on your Windows OS before, you’ve seen a harmless popup appear. This is Windows User Account Control, or UAC. According to Microsoft, UAC “is a fundamental component of Microsoft’s overall security …

Some notes to myself to use as a reference guide and to gain a better understanding of the privileges and rights assigned to Windows services in the form of SDDL security descriptor strings finally today became useful to solve a problem of a Good friend and college of mine (Dear …

A regular domain user can easily take over the entire Active Directory domain. While we still recommend that the print spooler service should be disabled on any system that does not need it, we also want to provide a temporary workaround to make the exploit ineffective, while allowing you to …

Summary Active Directory Exploitation Cheatsheet Summary Tools Domain Enumeration Using PowerView Using AD Module Using BloodHound Useful Enumeration Tools Local Privilege Escalation Lateral Movement Powershell Remoting Remote Code Execution with PS Credentials Import a powershell module and execute its functions remotely Executing Remote Stateful commands Mimikatz Useful Tools Domain Privilege …

This article contains a list of PowerShell commands collected from various corners of the Internet which could be helpful during penetration tests or red team exercises. The list includes various post-exploitation one-liners in pure PowerShell without requiring any offensive (= potentially flagged as malicious) 3rd party modules, but also a …

You should always ask yourself two questions when dealing with Group Policy: Where are you (local, site, domain, or organizational unit)? What are you (computer or user)? The LSD OU rule With these two questions, you will be able to understand how the system applies Group Policy Objects as well …