Enumerate useful information like users, groups, group memberships, computers, user properties, trusts, ACLs etc. to map attack paths​

Learn and practice different local privilege escalation techniques on a Windows machine​

Hunt for local admin privileges on machines in the target domain using multiple methods​

Abuse enterprise applications to execute complex attack paths that involve bypassing antivirus and pivoting to different machines​

Learn how PowerShell tools can still be used for enumeration.​

Learn to modify existing tools to bypass Windows Defender.​

Bypass PowerShell security controls and enhanced logging like System Wide Transcription, Anti Malware Scan Interface (AMSI), Script Blok Logging and Constrained Language Mode (CLM).​

Learn how to modify and use .NET tools to bypass Windows Defender and Microsoft Defender for Endpoint (MDE).​

Learn to use .NET Loaders that can run assemblies in-memory.

Learn to find credentials and sessions of high privileges domain accounts like Domain Administrators, extracting their credentials and then using credential replay attacks to escalate privileges, all of this with just using built-in protocols for pivoting​

Learn to extract credentials from a restricted environment where application whitelisting is enforced. Abuse derivative local admin privileges and pivot to other machines to escalate privileges to domain level​

Understand the classic Kerberoast and its variants to escalate privileges​

Understand and exploit delegation issues​

Learn how to abuse privileges of Protected Groups to escalate privileges​

Abuse Kerberos to persist with DA privileges. Forge tickets to execute attacks like Golden ticket, Diamond ticket and Silver ticket to persist​

Subvert the authentication on the domain level with Skeleton key and custom SSP​

Abuse the DC safe mode Administrator for persistence​​

Abuse the protection mechanism like AdminSDHolder for persistence

Abuse minimal rights required for attacks like DCSync by modifying ACLs of domain objects

Learn to modify the host security descriptors of the domain controller to persist and execute commands without needing DA privileges

​Learn to elevate privileges from Domain Admin of a child domain to Enterprise Admins on the forest root by abusing Trust keys and krbtgt account

Execute intra-forest trust attacks to access resources across forest

Abuse database links to achieve code execution across forest by just using the databases

Learn about Active Directory Certificate Services and execute some of the most popular attacks.

Execute attacks across Domain trusts to escalate privileges to Enterprise Admins.

Learn about useful events logged when the discussed attacks are executed

Learn briefly about architecture changes required in an organization to avoid the discussed attacks. We discuss Temporal group membership, ACL Auditing, LAPS, SID Filtering, Selective Authentication, credential guard, device guard (WDAC), Protected Users Group, PAW, Tiered Administration and ESAE or Red Forest

Learn how Microsoft's Advanced Threat Analytics and other similar tools detect domain attacks and the ways to avoid and bypass such tools

Understand how Deception can be effective deployed as a defense mechanism in AD

Learn about Microsoft’s EDR – Microsoft Defender for Endpoint and understand the telemetry and components used by MDE for detection.

Execute an entire chain of attacks across forest trust without triggering any alert by MDE.

Use Security 365 dashboard to verify MDE bypass.​

Learn about Microsoft Identity Protection (MDI) and understand how MDI relies on anomaly to spot an attack.

Bypass various MDI detections throughout the course.