Credential Dumping: DCSync Attack

Active Directory Credential Dumping DCSync Attack is a specialized technique used by attackers to extract credentials from a domain controller (DC) by simulating the behavior of a domain controller itself.

🛠 Setting up a lab environment to simulate the attack
📚 Understanding the DRS protocol and how the attack works
🔍 Why such misconfigurations occur in real-world scenarios
💣 Exploiting the misconfiguration
🗺 Mapping the attack to MITRE ATT&CK
👁 Detecting the attack
🛡 Mitigation strategies

👁 Lab Setup
Requirements:
• A virtualized environment (e.g., VMware, VirtualBox, or Hyper-V).
• Windows Server configured as a Domain Controller.
• A Windows client machine.
• Tools: Impacket, Mimikatz, Netexec, and Metasploit.

🛠 Steps:
Domain Controller Configura􀆟on:
• Install and configure Windows Server as a DC where domain name is ignite.local and IP is defined as sta􀆟c 192.168.1.48.
• Set up Ac􀆟ve Directory (AD) with a few users and groups.

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