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Attacking Kerberos Tryhackme Writeup

Vijay Kumar Gupta
23 min readAug 26, 2024

This is a Writeup of Tryhackme room “Attacking Kerberos”

Room link: https://tryhackme.com/room/attackingkerberos
Note: This room is for Premium Members Only. who purchased THM premium membership.

Task 1. Introduction

This room will cover all of the basics of attacking Kerberos the windows ticket-granting service; we’ll cover the following:

  • Initial enumeration using tools like Kerbrute and Rubeus
  • Kerberoasting
  • AS-REP Roasting with Rubeus and Impacket
  • Golden/Silver Ticket Attacks
  • Pass the Ticket
  • Skeleton key attacks using mimikatz

This room will be related to very real-world applications and will most likely not help with any CTFs however it will give you great starting knowledge of how to escalate your privileges to a domain admin by attacking Kerberos and allow you to take over and control a network.

It is recommended to have knowledge of general post-exploitation, active directory basics, and windows command line to be successful with this room.

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Vijay Kumar Gupta
Vijay Kumar Gupta

Written by Vijay Kumar Gupta

Vijay Gupta is an inspiring public speaker and social entrepreneur who has dedicated his life to bringing about positive change and empowering communities.

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