hunting-kerberoasting-and-ticket-attacks

hunting-kerberoasting-and-ticket-attacks is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from meltedinhex/analyst-ai-pack. It costs 78 tokens per session (695 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A Windows domain security hunt for Kerberoasting, an attack that requests many Kerberos service tickets so service-account passwords can be cracked offline. It analyses Windows Event ID 4769 records.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps find bulk service-ticket requests, RC4-HMAC tickets, accounts targeting many service names, and the computers from which the requests originated.
Why use it?
A user requesting tickets for many services, especially with the weaker RC4 encryption type, can indicate credential theft. The hunt helps focus investigation on unusual accounts and request patterns.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit It helps find bulk service-ticket requests, RC4-HMAC tickets, accounts targeting many service names, and the computers from which the requests originated.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/meltedinhex/analyst-ai-pack/hunting-kerberoasting-and-ticket-attacks
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add meltedinhex/analyst-ai-pack --skill hunting-kerberoasting-and-ticket-attacks
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/meltedinhex/analyst-ai-pack

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 78 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 695 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

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.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00078 $0.00695
Opus 5 $0.00039 $0.00347
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.00139
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00069

Measured 9d ago against content hash 8acebf40e35e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

hunting-kerberoasting-and-ticket-attacks 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 9d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/analyst.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

skills/hunting-kerberoasting-and-ticket-attacks/SKILL.md · 86 lines

What it actually says

Hunting Kerberoasting and Ticket Attacks

When to Use

  • You have Kerberos service ticket request events (Event ID 4769) and want to detect Kerberoasting (bulk TGS requests with crackable RC4 encryption against service accounts).
  • You are investigating AD credential-access activity.

Do not use this for AS-REP roasting (4768 with preauth disabled) — that is a related but separate hunt; this focuses on 4769 TGS requests.

Prerequisites

  • Event ID 4769 records with account name, service name (SPN), ticket encryption type, and client address.

Workflow

Step 1: Flag weak-encryption ticket requests

python scripts/analyst.py hunt 4769_events.csv

Flags tickets with encryption type 0x17 (RC4-HMAC) — the crackable type Kerberoasting prefers — and computes per-account SPN request volume.

Step 2: Detect bulk SPN targeting

Surface accounts requesting tickets for many distinct SPNs in a short window (a single user enumerating service accounts).

Step 3: Confirm

Correlate with the requesting host and whether the account legitimately needs those services.

Step 4: Operationalize

Write a detection for RC4 4769 requests from non-machine accounts above a volume threshold.

Validation

  • RC4 (0x17) requests are distinguished from AES (0x11/0x12).
  • Per-account distinct-SPN counts identify bulk targeting.
  • Findings map to ATT&CK T1558.003.

Pitfalls

  • Legacy applications legitimately using RC4 — baseline before alerting.
  • Failure code 0x0 (success) only; some logs include failures that skew counts.
  • Service accounts with many SPNs producing benign volume — combine with encryption-type weakness.

References

Files

What ships with it

3 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.

Changes

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.

  1. 9d ago First seen · 86 lines · 78 tokens per session scan A 8acebf40e35e

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hunting-kerberoasting-and-ticket-attacks is a skill published in the GitHub repository meltedinhex/analyst-ai-pack (22 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 78 tokens to every session and 695 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.

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