hunting-kerberos-and-ad-delegation-abuse

hunting-kerberos-and-ad-delegation-abuse is a skill for Claude Code from UnboundCompute/security-agent-skills. It costs 182 tokens per session (2,340 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A security-hunting guide for finding risky Kerberos delegation settings in Microsoft Active Directory. Kerberos is the system Windows domains use for identity tickets, and delegation lets a service act as a user when accessing another service.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to investigate unconstrained, constrained, and resource-based delegation, protocol transition, service accounts, and possible paths to impersonation.
Why use it?
It explains how broad or poorly scoped delegation can let an attacker reuse user identity tickets or impersonate more-privileged accounts. This helps identify dangerous trust and service-account configurations.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the security-agent-skills plugin — 194 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to investigate unconstrained, constrained, and resource-based delegation, protocol transition, service accounts, and possible paths to impersonation.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/unboundcompute/security-agent-skills/hunting-kerberos-and-ad-delegation-abuse
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add UnboundCompute/security-agent-skills --skill hunting-kerberos-and-ad-delegation-abuse
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/UnboundCompute/security-agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install security-agent-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 194 skills.

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Per session 182 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,340 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 $0.00182 $0.02340
Opus 5.5 $0.00073 $0.00936
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00036 $0.00468
Haiku 4.5 $0.00018 $0.00234

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 0898c5c8c9e6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

hunting-kerberos-and-ad-delegation-abuse 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.

skills/hunting-kerberos-and-ad-delegation-abuse/SKILL.md · 153 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 153 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Hunting Kerberos and AD delegation abuse: delegation lets a service become the user, so scope it

Kerberos delegation exists so a front-end service can act as the user against a back-end service, a web app reaching a database as the logged-in user, for instance. That is useful and also a standing impersonation right, and the danger is entirely in its scope. Unconstrained delegation is the worst case: a service with it receives a forwardable ticket for every user who authenticates, caches it, and can replay that ticket against anything, so compromising one such service turns every user who touched it, up to and including a domain admin, into an identity the attacker can wear. Constrained delegation narrows the targets, but if the allowed targets include a higher-privileged service, or protocol transition lets the service request tickets for users who never authenticated to it, the constraint is a ramp. Resource-based constrained delegation moves the setting onto the target object, so an attacker who can write to an object they control can authorize their own delegation into it. And the credential side is just as live: a service account with a service principal name can be Kerberoasted, its ticket requested and the encrypted portion cracked offline to recover a weak password, and an account that does not require pre-authentication is roastable the same way without even authenticating. The hunt inventories delegation rights and roastable accounts and traces each to the highest identity it can reach. You hunt this by finding who may delegate for whom and who can be cracked, then following the chain up.

When to use

  • An Active Directory environment uses Kerberos with service accounts, service principal names, and one or more delegation models configured.
  • A service may have unconstrained delegation, constrained delegation to a sensitive target, or attacker-settable resource-based delegation.
  • A service account may be Kerberoastable through its SPN, or an account may not require Kerberos pre-authentication.

Read the full file on GitHub · 153 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. 1mo ago First seen · 153 lines · 182 tokens per session scan A 0898c5c8c9e6

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hunting-kerberos-and-ad-delegation-abuse is a skill published in the GitHub repository UnboundCompute/security-agent-skills (5 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 182 tokens to every session and 2,340 once invoked, about $0.0007 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-09-05.

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