Vulnerable AD Test Lab

These are some notes describing how to build a deliberately vulnerable Active Directory test lab to test some well-known misconfigurations or exploits. I might expand on this later…​ ℹ️ This is nothing new, most of this stuff can be easily found on the Internet. This is just for my own reference. Please excuse my brevity. This article assumes a Windows Server 2022 system (VM), and a non domain joined Linux system (VM) with pentesting tools such as impacket and certipy. ...

November 16, 2025 · 8 min

Forging Kerberos Tickets

These are some scribbles if I ever need to look up how to forge my own Kerberos Tickets, such as Silver, Golden, Diamond or Sapphire Tickets. I might expand on this later…​ ℹ️ This is nothing new, most of this stuff can be easily found on the Internet. This is just for my own reference. Please excuse my brevity. Environment Previously, I’ve documented (also for myself) how to Kerberoast and ASREProast. For this article, we’re assuming we’ve already compromised the domain and have gotten our hands on the KRBTGT secrets (NTHash, AES keys). In other words, we’ve already got DA. ...

August 9, 2025 · 6 min