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Pentesting Active Directory and Windows-based Infrastructure

You're reading from  Pentesting Active Directory and Windows-based Infrastructure

Product type Book
Published in Nov 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781804611364
Pages 360 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Author (1):
Denis Isakov Denis Isakov
Profile icon Denis Isakov

Table of Contents (13) Chapters

Preface 1. Chapter 1: Getting the Lab Ready and Attacking Exchange Server 2. Chapter 2: Defense Evasion 3. Chapter 3: Domain Reconnaissance and Discovery 4. Chapter 4: Credential Access in Domain 5. Chapter 5: Lateral Movement in Domain and Across Forests 6. Chapter 6: Domain Privilege Escalation 7. Chapter 7: Persistence on Domain Level 8. Chapter 8: Abusing Active Directory Certificate Services 9. Chapter 9: Compromising Microsoft SQL Server 10. Chapter 10: Taking Over WSUS and SCCM 11. Index 12. Other Books You May Enjoy

Enumerating services and hunting for users

To continue our enumeration, the next step will be to identify available services, file and SQL servers, and the privileged users’ activity in the domain. As we discussed at the beginning of this chapter, our target is to get access to critical data and services in the compromised environment.

SPN

Service Principal Names (SPNs) are the names by which a Kerberos client uniquely identifies instances of a service for a given Kerberos target computer. There is a comprehensive list of known SPNs for Active Directory held by PyroTek3[20]. We can use them to better understand what services are present in the domain and use Kerberos authentication.

We can enumerate SPN in the domain by using the setspn utility or SharpView with the following commands to find users and computers with SPNs:

Get-DomainComputer -ServicePrincipalName "*"
Get-DomainUser -SPN

To get all SPNs with the setspn utility, we can run the following...

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