Masterclass: Advanced Active Directory Attacks

Enterprise administrators, infrastructure architects, security professionals, systems engineers, network administrators, IT professionals, security consultants and other people responsible for implementing network and perimeter security.

The course is an intense workshop! During these 3 days you will not need your caffeine candies – this workshop is really intense and it will keep you awake all the time!

The workshop covers all aspects of Active Directory identity security from the hacker’s mind perspective! Our goal is to show and teach you what kind of mechanisms are allowing to get inside the infrastructure and how to get into organization. You will gain penetration tester’s knowledge and tools.

Module 1: Authentication protocols

a) NTLM
b) Kerberos
c) Claim based authentication

Module 2: Identity attacks

a) Pass-the-Hash attacks
b) Stealing the LSA Secrets
c) Modern identity attacks techniques
d) Password guessing, spraying a bruteforcing
e) MITM attacks, NBNS/LLMNR spoofing, NTLM Relay, Kerberoasting
f) Offline attacks, decrypting DPAPI a DPAPI-NG
g) Attacks against smart card authentication

Module 3: Active Directory attacker persistency

a) Archieving persistence, Skeleton Key, Golden Ticket attack
b) Windows Hello for Business Security, NGC keys
c) DCSync and DCShadow
d) AdminSDholder

Module 4: Mitigating the identity attacks

a) Pass-the-Hash attack prevention
b) LSA protection
c) Credential Guard

Module 5: Azure AD security

a) Stealing Azure AD tokens
b) Azure MFA and FIDO2 auditing
c) Azure AD application security

 

• To attend this training, you should have a good hands-on experience in administering Windows infrastructure. At least 5 years in the field is recommended.

After finishing the course, you will be granted a CQURE Certificate of Completion. Please note that after completing the course you will also be eligible to claim CPE points!

Unique exercises:

All exercises are based on Windows Server 2016 and 2019, Windows 10, Kali Linux and
Azure Cloud. This workshop is based on practical knowledge from tons of successful
projects, many years of real-world experience and no mercy for misconfigurations or insecure solutions!

Materials:

Author’s unique tools, presentations slides.

Platform and Technical Requirements:

To participate in the course you need a Stable internet connection. For the best learning experience we also need you to have a webcam, headphones and a microphone. Open RDP port 3391 for the connection to the Lab environment is needed as well. We will setup a secure Zoom classroom for every day of the course – we will send you a safe link to join the conference by e-mail.