Overview The Windows registry is a hierarchical database that governs application behaviour, user profiles, service configurations, security policies, and system startup. For penetration testers, remote
Overview This article delivers a practical, hands-on walkthrough of Impacket-atexec, one of the most reliable remote command-execution utilities in an attacker’s or penetration tester’s arsenal.
Overview BloodHound-python delivers a fast, cross-platform way to map the attack paths hidden inside an Active Directory environment. Instead of manually querying LDAP, dumping group
Overview This article walks through a complete forest compromise of an Active Directory environment, escalating from a single child domain all the way to the
Overview Villain is an open-source command-and-control (C2) framework developed by t3l3machus that turns a single operator console into a full collaborative attack platform. It generates
Overview This article presents an end-to-end engagement built entirely around Penelope, an automated shell handler and post-exploitation framework. We catch an initial reverse shell on
This walkthrough takes you end-to-end against a Windows Server 2019 domain controller in the ignite.local lab. You start exactly where the exam drops you —
The walkthrough covers thirteen distinct attack phases: AD CS template reconnaissance, LDAP enumeration, Kerberos weakness discovery, credential extraction, SAMR account manipulation, Resource-Based Constrained Delegation abuse,
This article walks through three authentication paths that impacket-net supports — NTLM hash (Pass-the-Hash), Kerberos ticket, and AES key — and demonstrates how each one