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Pentesting Active Directory and Windows-based Infrastructure

You're reading from   Pentesting Active Directory and Windows-based Infrastructure A comprehensive practical guide to penetration testing Microsoft infrastructure

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781804611364
Length 360 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Denis Isakov Denis Isakov
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Table of Contents (13) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Chapter 1: Getting the Lab Ready and Attacking Exchange Server 2. Chapter 2: Defense Evasion FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 3: Domain Reconnaissance and Discovery 4. Chapter 4: Credential Access in Domain 5. Chapter 5: Lateral Movement in Domain and Across Forests 6. Chapter 6: Domain Privilege Escalation 7. Chapter 7: Persistence on Domain Level 8. Chapter 8: Abusing Active Directory Certificate Services 9. Chapter 9: Compromising Microsoft SQL Server 10. Chapter 10: Taking Over WSUS and SCCM 11. Index 12. Other Books You May Enjoy

Enumeration tools

The most common tools used for domain enumeration are PowerView or SharpView and SharpHound together with BloodHound.

SharpView/PowerView

SharpView[10] is a .NET port of PowerView[11]. This tool has a wide variety of methods that can improve and speed up the enumeration process in complex environments. I can recommend reading the PowerView wiki[12], as it explains in detail how the tool runs queries. Let us grab the version from GitHub, compile it, and follow our methodology. We will not run Wireshark for every command, but choose one as an example to understand what traces are left behind us. To make our life easier, I used the Get-DomainSID command:

Figure 3.10 – Result of the Get-DomainSID command

Figure 3.10 – Result of the Get-DomainSID command

The following Wireshark capture shows a few DNS requests for the domain LDAP SRV, then a mix of CLDAP and LDAP queries/responses, together with Kerberos authentication. Overall, 265 packets were captured:

Figure 3.11 – Wireshark capture for the Get-DomainSID command
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