Enumerating Active Directory

Enumerating will allow you to gather sensitive information about all the objects, users, devices, and policies within the entire Active Directory domain. Such information will provide you with insights into how the organization uses Active Directory to manage its domain. You will also be able to gain a clear idea of how to exploit the trust between domain clients, users, and the domain controller to compromise an organization’s Active Directory domain.

Furthermore, the enumeration of Active Directory provides penetration testers with insights and understanding of the structure, permissions, and policies in place, which are critical for both security assessments and malicious threat actors.

To recap, in Chapter 3, Setting Up for Advanced Penetration Testing Techniques, you learned how to assemble our Redteamlab which we will use in this chapter to help understand and exploit an Active Directory domain. The following diagram shows the topology...