Forest Hackthebox Walkthrough Best [upd]

The attack is the crown jewel of AD exploitation. A user with the right replication privileges (typically Domain Admins) can impersonate a Domain Controller and request other Domain Controllers to replicate passwords. By abusing the WriteDacl permission we discovered, we can grant our user the DS-Replication-Get-Changes and DS-Replication-Get-Changes-All privileges.

Create a file diskshadow.txt locally:

The objective is to map the attack surface and identify the target as a .

nslookup 10.10.10.161 # Reverse lookup → forest.htb.local

WinRM is open (port 5985). Connect:

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: Reveals the domain name htb.local and hostname forest.htb.local .

The presence of WinRM (port 5985) is crucial. If we obtain credentials for a user in the "Remote Management Users" group, we can log in via evil-winrm .

BloodHound reveals that svc-account is a member of the group. Exploiting Group Policy forest hackthebox walkthrough best

Active Directory enumeration, AS-REP Roasting, BloodHound analysis, ACL exploitation. Step 1: Reconnaissance & Port Scanning

smbclient -L 10.10.10.74

: Use Impacket’s secretsdump.py with your new user's credentials to dump all domain hashes, including the Administrator NTLM hash.

With null session access sometimes available, we can use enum4linux to pull a list of domain users. rpcclient is a reliable alternative for this task. The attack is the crown jewel of AD exploitation

: Confirms the machine is a Domain Controller.

The script dumps the password hashes for all domain users, including the account:

ldapsearch -x -H ldap://10.10.10.161 -b "DC=htb,DC=local"

Result: We manage to connect! This is a major misconfiguration. We can now enumerate domain users. Create a file diskshadow

hashcat -m 18200 hashes.asrep /usr/share/wordlists/rockyou.txt Use code with caution. Hashcat reveals the password for svc-account . Phase 3: Privilege Escalation (BloodHound & Group Policy)