[Edit 9/29/18] For a better weaponization of constrained delegation abuse, check out the “s4u” section of the From Kekeo to Rubeus post. Several weeks ago my workmate Lee Christensen (who helped develop this post and material) and I spent some time diving into Active Directory’s S4U2Self and S4U2Proxy protocol extensions. Then, just recently, Benjamin Delpy and Ben …
Yesterday’s commit to the PowerSploit dev branch is the biggest set of changes to PowerView since its inception. I’ve spent the last month or so rewriting PowerView from the ground up, squashing a number of bugs, adding a chunk of features, and standardizing the code base’s behavior. The commit message summarizes the modifications, but I wanted to spend …
[Edit 6/14/16] I was mistaken on a few points in the Local Account Management – Restricted Groups section, which I have now corrected. Thanks to @DougSec for the question/catch. Enumerating the membership of the Administrators local group on various computers is something we do on most of our engagements. This post will cover how to do this with Group Policy …
A year ago, Microsoft released the Local Administrator Password Solution (LAPS) which aims to prevent the reuse of local administrator passwords by setting, “…a different, random password for the common local administrator account on every computer in the domain.” This post will cover a brief background on LAPS and how to use PowerView to perform some specific LAPS-specific enumeration. Sean Metcalf has …
A friend (@piffd0s) recently ran into a specific situation I hadn’t encountered before: the domain controllers and domain admins of the environment he was assessing were extremely locked down, but he was able to determine that a few users had edit rights on a few specific group policy objects (GPOs). After a bit of back and forth, …
I’ve found that one of the most useful features of PowerView (outside of its user hunting capabilities) is its ability to enumerate local group membership on remote machines. I’ve spoken about this briefly before, and gave some details on its utilization of the ADSI WinNT Provider in the “Pass-the-Hash is Dead: Long Live Pass-the-Hash” post. My colleague @sixdub …
Following my pattern of weaponizing Sean Metcalf‘s work in PowerView, I’m here with another update. Sean recently released a post titled “Dump Clear-Text Passwords for All Admins in the Domain Using Mimikatz DCSync“. He describes a legacy feature for Active Directory user accounts called ‘reversible encryption’. According to Microsoft, “This policy is required when using Challenge-Handshake Authentication Protocol …
After a few requests, I’ve built out a series of cheat sheets for a few of the tools I help actively develop- PowerView, PowerUp, and Empire. I hope to illustrate the full functionality available in each tool and provide a quick reference for new adopters (as well as seasoned operators). PDF versions of these will be kept in …
One of my favorite presentations at Derbycon V was Sean Metcalf (@pyrotek3)’s talk “Red vs. Blue: Modern Active Directory Attacks & Defense“. In it, Sean had a section focused on “Sneaky AD Persistence Tricks”, meaning methods “by which an attacker could persist administrative access to Active Directory after having Domain Admin level rights for 5 minutes“. I …
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A few months ago, Skip Duckwall asked me if it was possible, through PowerView, to enumerate what organizational units a particular group policy Globally Unique Identifier (GUID) applied to. Say you have a GUID from a Group Policy Object (e.g. from the results of PowerSploit’s Get-GPPPassword). Knowing exactly what OUs (and then what machines) this policy applies to can really …
