2026-05

Active Directory

Silver Ticket Attacks: Forging Kerberos Service Tickets

How attackers forge Kerberos TGS service tickets using a service account hash, and how blue teams detect and prevent it.
Active Directory

Abusing Unconstrained Delegation: From Printer Bug to Domain Compromise

How attackers abuse Kerberos Unconstrained Delegation to capture TGTs and pivot to Domain Admin, plus blue-team defenses.
Active Directory

Abusing Kerberos Constrained Delegation: S4U2Self and S4U2Proxy

A practical walkthrough of abusing Kerberos Constrained Delegation via S4U2Self and S4U2Proxy to impersonate privileged users.
Active Directory

Resource-Based Constrained Delegation (RBCD) Attack: From a Single Computer Account to Domain Compromise

A practical walkthrough of the Resource-Based Constrained Delegation attack, abusing msDS-AllowedToActOnBehalfOfOtherIdentity for privilege escalation.
Active Directory

ADCS Attacks: A Practical Overview of ESC1 Through ESC8

A field guide to Active Directory Certificate Services attacks ESC1-ESC8, with Certipy commands and Blue Team defenses.
Active Directory

Introduction to Attack Path Analysis with BloodHound

Learn how to collect AD data with SharpHound and use BloodHound, neo4j, and Cypher to find the shortest path to Domain Admins.
Active Directory

LDAP Enumeration Techniques: ldapsearch and windapsearch

A practical guide to enumerating Active Directory over LDAP with ldapsearch, windapsearch, and bloodyAD, plus blue-team defenses.
Active Directory

SMB Enumeration and Null Session Exploitation

A practical guide to enumerating SMB and abusing null sessions with enum4linux-ng, smbclient, rpcclient, and RID cycling.
Active Directory

Inside Kerberos: A Deep Dive into the Protocol Internals

A practical breakdown of Kerberos internals: AS-REQ, TGS-REQ, the PAC, and why RC4 vs AES etypes matter for attackers and defenders.
Active Directory

Abusing Group Policy Objects for Privilege Escalation and Lateral Movement

How attackers weaponize editable Group Policy Objects with SharpGPOAbuse and GPP cpassword, plus blue-team detection and hardening.
Active Directory

Abusing Active Directory DACLs: GenericAll, WriteDACL, and the Path to Domain Compromise

How attackers abuse GenericAll and WriteDACL ACEs in Active Directory, and how blue teams detect and prevent it.
Active Directory

Shadow Credentials: Abusing msDS-KeyCredentialLink for AD Persistence and Privilege Escalation

Abuse msDS-KeyCredentialLink to forge Key Trust certificates, authenticate via PKINIT, and recover NTLM hashes.
Active Directory

Password Spraying Active Directory Without Tripping Lockouts

A practical, lockout-aware guide to password spraying Active Directory with kerbrute, plus detection and defense.
Active Directory

PetitPotam and Coercion Attacks: Forcing Authentication and Relaying to AD CS

How PetitPotam coerces machine authentication via MS-EFSRPC and relays it to AD CS for domain compromise — with detection and defense.
Security

Abusing Windows Token Privileges: The Potato Attack Family

How service accounts with SeImpersonatePrivilege escalate to SYSTEM via JuicyPotato, PrintSpoofer, and RoguePotato, plus blue-team defenses.