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Published inNov 2023
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Denis Isakov
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Denis Isakov

Denis Isakov is a passionate security professional with 10+ years of experience ranging from incident response to penetration testing. He worked in various industries, including banking and consultancy. Denis is specialized in offensive security with particular focus on Active Directory and adversary malware. He has earned a Master's degree in Information Systems and Technologies in 2012. Additionally, Denis has achieved an array of industry certifications ranging from OSCP to GXPN. Outside of computers, Denis enjoys sports and discovering new places.
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It was inevitable that we would reach a point where we must discuss and understand Kerberos. This authentication protocol was built to access services in the network by presenting a valid ticket.

Kerberos 101

We need a bit more of an understanding of how the protocol works before we can discuss the attack venues available for us. As a good starting point, I can recommend the blog post by hackndo[17]

We have three main subjects – the client, service, and Key Distribution Center (KDC), which is the domain controller. The following diagram[18], which was published on the Microsoft website, explains how it works:

Figure 4.8 – Kerberos in a nutshell

Now let follow the authentication process in more details step-by-step.

  1. KRB_AS_REQ (Kerberos Authentication Service Request) is sent by the client to KDC and contains various information, most importantly, a timestamp that is encrypted with the hashed...
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Denis Isakov

Denis Isakov is a passionate security professional with 10+ years of experience ranging from incident response to penetration testing. He worked in various industries, including banking and consultancy. Denis is specialized in offensive security with particular focus on Active Directory and adversary malware. He has earned a Master's degree in Information Systems and Technologies in 2012. Additionally, Denis has achieved an array of industry certifications ranging from OSCP to GXPN. Outside of computers, Denis enjoys sports and discovering new places.
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