HTB - Forest
I’m planning to take the TCM Security PJPT certification exam next Monday. I’ve finished going through the PEH course, and I wanted to spend some time working on HTB machines to put some of the techniques and methodologies I learned into practice and build up my confidence for the exam. While looking around online, I came across the Forest machine, which seems to be one of the more well-known…
In preparation for the TCM Security PJPT certification exam, the reporter completed the PEH course and decided to practice using HTB machines, particularly the Forest machine, which is known for Active Directory attacks. The Forest machine is categorized as easy, but the reporter recommends having basic Active Directory knowledge before attempting it.
Upon conducting an nmap scan on the machine (10.129.89.197), the reporter identified several services and pieces of information that indicated the target's role as a Domain Controller (DC) for the htb.local domain. These services include DNS, Kerberos, LDAP, Microsoft Windows RPC, Microsoft Windows netbios-ssn, Microsoft HTTPAPI, and Microsoft HTTPAPI SSDP/UPnP.
The reporter attempted to enumerate users in the htb.local domain but found themselves stuck due to the lack of a subnet and restricted techniques. They eventually discovered anonymous LDAP authentication as a method to enumerate information from the Active Directory environment. Using the tool windapsearch.py, the reporter performed a broad LDAP enumeration of the domain, successfully extracting names of users, computers, groups, and other directory objects.
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