Active Directory attacks for Red and Blue Teams – Advanced Edition

Enterprises are managed using Active Directory (AD) and it often forms the backbone of the complete enterprise network. Therefore, to secure an enterprise from an adversary, it is inevitable to secure its AD environment. To secure AD, you must understand different techniques and attacks used by adversaries against it. Often burdened with maintaining backward compatibility and interoperability with a variety of products, AD environments lack ability to tackle latest threats. This training is aimed towards attacking modern AD Environment using built-in tools, trusted OS resources and abuse of features. The training is based on real world penetration tests and Red Team engagements for highly secured environments. Some of the techniques (see the course content for details), used in the course:

• Extensive AD Enumeration
• Active Directory trust mapping and abuse
• Privilege Escalation (User Hunting, Delegation issues, LAPS abuse, gMSA abuse, SPN Hijacking, Shadow Credentials and more)d
• Advanced Kerberos Attacks and Defense (Diamond, Golden, Silver ticket, Kerberoast and more)
• Advanced cross forest trust abuse (Over-PTH, Token Replay, Certificate Replay etc.)
• Credentials Replay Attacks
• Attacking Azure AD integration (Hybrid Identity)
• Abusing trusts for MS products (AD CS, SQL Server etc.)
• Persistence (WMI, GPO, Domain and Host ACLs and more)
• Monitoring Active Directory
• Defenses (JEA, PAW, LAPS, Selective Authentication, Deception, App Allowlisting, Microsoft Defender for Identity etc.)
• Bypassing defenses

The course is a mixture of fun, demos, exercises, hands-on and lecture. You start from compromise of a user desktop and work your way up to multiple forest pwnage. The training focuses more on methodology and techniques than tools. Attendees will get free one month access to an Active Directory environment comprising of multiple domains and forests, during and after the training. This training aims to change how you test an Active Directory Environment.

• Understanding of networks and network technologies
• Experience and skills in administrative infrastructure
• Knowledge of attack path in Active Directory

Chirag Savla is an information security professional whose areas of interest include penetration testing, red teaming, azure, active directory security, and post-exploitation research. He has over 7+ years of experience in information security. Chirag likes to research new attack methodologies and create opensource tools that can be used during the red team assessments. He has worked extensively on Azure, Active Directory attacks, defense, and bypassing detection mechanisms. He is the author of multiple Open Source tools such as Process Injection, Callidus, etc. He has spoken in multiple conferences and local meetups. He works as a Senior Security Researcher at Altered Security - a company focusing on hands-on enterprise security learning - https://www.alteredsecurity.com/