The Forest machine on HackTheBox is a classic Active Directory (AD) exploitation lab. The "best" walkthroughs, such as the one by 0xdf hacks stuff, typically break the attack into three main pieces: Reconnaissance, Initial Access via AS-REP Roasting, and Privilege Escalation using BloodHound. 1. Reconnaissance (The First Piece)

2. Set a fake SPN on a privileged user (e.g., Administrator) using dacledit (part of impacket):

No null session shares.
Try LDAP enumeration:

whoami /all
net user svc-alfresco

2) Service enumeration — SMB, LDAP, Kerberos, RPC

• SMB shares:

  Box Information

  • Box Name: Forest
  • Difficulty: Medium
  • Operating System: Linux
  • IP Address: 10.10.10.74 (at the time of writing)

  HTB Forest Walkthrough: Master Active Directory Exploitation

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