# Active Directory Exploitation & Pivoting Lab ## About * Utilized VMWare Workstation Pro to setup an Active Directory environment to learn and practice AD enumeration, exploitation, and pivoting techniques. * Setup a domain controller with group policy objects to emulate a real life, insecure Windows environment. * Setup two vulnerable host machines and joined them to the AD domain. * Used a Kali attack box to enumerate the AD environment, intercept and spoof NTLM traffic, and practice Kerberoasting and other common AD attack methods to compromise each host in the domain, as well as the domain controller. ## Postmortem * A great, if time consuming, way to learn not just offensive security but AD admin skills. * Protip: these 'about' sections are all pulled from the content of my previous site, and you can definitely tell I was writing *for* recruiters when I wrote this. --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter: ``` GET https://docs.bdurham.dev/old-projects/active-directory-exploitation-and-pivoting-lab.md?ask= ``` The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation. Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.