active-directory-kerberos-attacks

active-directory-kerberos-attacks is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from yaklang/hack-skills. It costs 48 tokens per session (2,929 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to attacking Kerberos authentication in Microsoft Active Directory, the system many Windows organizations use to manage users, computers, and permissions. It covers stolen or forged authentication tickets and abuse of delegation.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it during authorized Active Directory assessments. It covers AS-REP roasting, Kerberoasting, forged ticket types, delegation abuse, pass-the-ticket, and related attack paths.
Why use it?
It helps security testers understand how weaknesses in ticket handling or delegation can let an attacker move through an organization or gain higher privileges.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it during authorized Active Directory assessments. It covers AS-REP roasting, Kerberoasting, forged ticket types, delegation abuse, pass-the-ticket, and related attack paths.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/yaklang/hack-skills/active-directory-kerberos-attacks
About the project

HackSkills is an organized knowledge base of installable skills that gives AI agents practical security knowledge across areas such as web security, privilege escalation, reverse engineering, and digital forensics. It is intended for bug bounty work, penetration testing, CTF competitions, and authorized security research. The catalogue entries are the project's own master, category, and topic skills.

yaklang/hack-skills · 2,133 stars · on GitHub

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 yaklang/hack-skills --skill active-directory-kerberos-attacks
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/yaklang/hack-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 48 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,929 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. Third-party audits
  • Socket warn 9 Apr 2026
  • Snyk fail 9 Apr 2026
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 2 findings, up to high

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • high YARA Match · line 54
    YARA rule matched a hack tool or exploit indicator (offensive tools, reconnaissance, privilege escalation, or exploit frameworks).
    Fix: Remove offensive tool references and exploit code. Legitimate agent skills should not contain penetration testing tools, exploit frameworks, or reconnaissance utilities.
  • high YARA Match · line 123
    YARA rule matched a known malware signature (reverse shell, backdoor, ransomware, C2 framework, or info stealer).
    Fix: Remove the malware payload or compromised file entirely. Investigate how it entered the skill and audit all other artifacts for additional indicators of compromise.
How audits are shown
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 $0.00048 $0.02929
Opus 5 $0.00024 $0.01465
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00586
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00293

Measured 8d ago against content hash a9812725edef, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

active-directory-kerberos-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 8d 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

4 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:

skills/active-directory-kerberos-attacks/SKILL.md · 312 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 312 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

SKILL: Kerberos Attack Playbook — Expert AD Attack Guide

AI LOAD INSTRUCTION: Expert Kerberos attack techniques for AD environments. Covers AS-REP roasting, Kerberoasting, golden/silver/diamond/sapphire tickets, delegation attacks, pass-the-ticket, and overpass-the-hash. Base models miss ticket type distinctions, delegation chain nuances, and detection-evasion trade-offs.

Before going deep, consider loading:

Advanced Reference

Also load KERBEROS_ATTACK_CHAINS.md when you need:

  • Multi-step attack chains combining Kerberos with ACL abuse, ADCS, and relay
  • End-to-end scenarios from foothold to domain admin
  • Chained delegation attack flows

1. KERBEROS AUTHENTICATION PRIMER

Client              KDC (DC)              Service
  │                   │                     │
  │── AS-REQ ────────→│                     │  (1) Request TGT with user creds
  │←─ AS-REP ─────────│                     │  (2) Receive TGT (encrypted with krbtgt hash)
  │                   │                     │
  │── TGS-REQ ───────→│                     │  (3) Present TGT, request service ticket
  │←─ TGS-REP ────────│                     │  (4) Receive TGS (encrypted with service hash)
  │                   │                     │
  │── AP-REQ ─────────────────────────────→│  (5) Present TGS to service
  │←─ AP-REP ──────────────────────────────│  (6) Mutual auth (optional)

2. AS-REP ROASTING

Users with "Do not require Kerberos preauthentication" can be queried for AS-REP without knowing their password.

Read the full file on GitHub · 312 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 8d ago First seen · 312 lines · 48 tokens per session scan A a9812725edef

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active-directory-kerberos-attacks is a skill published in the GitHub repository yaklang/hack-skills (2,133 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 48 tokens to every session and 2,929 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-08-30.

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