active-directory-attacks

A guide to testing and assessing Microsoft Active Directory, the system Windows domains use to manage users, computers, and permissions. It covers discovery, credential attacks, movement between systems, and privilege escalation for authorized penetration tests.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plan Active Directory reconnaissance and assess techniques such as Kerberoasting, pass-the-hash, DCSync, ticket attacks, NTLM relay, and attack-path analysis with tools including BloodHound and Impacket.
Why use it?
It helps security testers understand how weaknesses in a Windows domain can expose credentials, impersonation opportunities, or administrator access. Use it only in environments where testing is authorized.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/zebbern/claude-code-guide/active-directory-attacks
Any agent
npx skills add zebbern/claude-code-guide --skill active-directory-attacks
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/zebbern/claude-code-guide

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 75 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,723 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan B 2 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00075 $0.02723
Opus 5 $0.00037 $0.01362
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00545
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00272

Measured 2d ago against content hash a086e99cb5f9, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

active-directory-attacks scanned grade B with 2 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 2d 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.

Harvests environment variablesmediumData exfiltration

Enumerating or grepping the environment for keys collects credentials unrelated to what the mod says it does.

Extract credentials directly from DC (requires Replicating Directory Changes rights):

Downgraded: this mod is about security review, or the phrase is quoted, so it is likely naming the pattern rather than instructing it.

Asks for rootlowPrivilege escalation

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

sudo date -s "14 APR 2024 18:25:16"

Downgraded: this mod is about security review, or the phrase is quoted, so it is likely naming the pattern rather than instructing it.

Origin

Copies of this mod

8 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:

skills/active-directory-attacks/SKILL.md · 384 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 384 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Active Directory Attacks

Purpose

Provide comprehensive techniques for attacking Microsoft Active Directory environments. Covers reconnaissance, credential harvesting, Kerberos attacks, lateral movement, privilege escalation, and domain dominance for red team operations and penetration testing.

Inputs/Prerequisites

  • Kali Linux or Windows attack platform
  • Domain user credentials (for most attacks)
  • Network access to Domain Controller
  • Tools: Impacket, Mimikatz, BloodHound, Rubeus, CrackMapExec

Outputs/Deliverables

  • Domain enumeration data
  • Extracted credentials and hashes
  • Kerberos tickets for impersonation
  • Domain Administrator access
  • Persistent access mechanisms

Essential Tools

Tool Purpose
BloodHound AD attack path visualization
Impacket Python AD attack tools
Mimikatz Credential extraction
Rubeus Kerberos attacks
CrackMapExec Network exploitation
PowerView AD enumeration
Responder LLMNR/NBT-NS poisoning

Core Workflow

Step 1: Kerberos Clock Sync

Kerberos requires clock synchronization (±5 minutes):

# Detect clock skew
nmap -sT 10.10.10.10 -p445 --script smb2-time

# Fix clock on Linux
sudo date -s "14 APR 2024 18:25:16"

# Fix clock on Windows
net time /domain /set

# Fake clock without changing system time
faketime -f '+8h' <command>

Step 2: AD Reconnaissance with BloodHound

# Start BloodHound
neo4j console
bloodhound --no-sandbox

# Collect data with SharpHound
.\SharpHound.exe -c All
.\SharpHound.exe -c All --ldapusername user --ldappassword pass

# Python collector (from Linux)
bloodhound-python -u 'user' -p 'password' -d domain.local -ns 10.10.10.10 -c all

Step 3: PowerView Enumeration

# Get domain info
Get-NetDomain
Get-DomainSID
Get-NetDomainController

# Enumerate users
Get-NetUser
Get-NetUser -SamAccountName targetuser
Get-UserProperty -Properties pwdlastset

# Enumerate groups
Get-NetGroupMember -GroupName "Domain Admins"
Get-DomainGroup -Identity "Domain Admins" | Select-Object -ExpandProperty Member

# Find local admin access
Find-LocalAdminAccess -Verbose

# User hunting
Invoke-UserHunter
Invoke-UserHunter -Stealth

Read the full file on GitHub · 384 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. 2d ago First seen · 384 lines · 75 tokens per session scan B a086e99cb5f9

Subscribe to this mod's changes

active-directory-attacks is a skill published in the GitHub repository zebbern/claude-code-guide (4,597 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 75 tokens to every session and 2,723 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it B with 2 findings (harvests environment variables, asks for root). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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