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# Active Directory

Active Directory is the cornerstone of an increasing number of business functionalities, and every year more work hinges on stable AD operability. Its access is also a gateway to a lot of organization’s information and hence, it is targeted by attackers and makes it one, if not the most juiciest target an attacker wants to compromise.

In this gitbook, i want to put my notes of my journey learning AD and AD attacks and since I'm planning on releasing this, i want to make it easily accessible and fairly understandable by others too :) 

I only covered the basics in this notebook and invite you to take a look a the references in the MISC section if you're interested in learning more. I will try to update it whenver i have some free time with other attacks and ressources and try to keep it up to date for you guys :)

Feel free to contact me if you find any mistakes or think i should add/delete something, i appreciate it :) 

Many resources & references have been used in this notebook, a huge thanks to :

@Thecybermentor for his course, especially the AD part that inspired the way this notebook was designed and many of the techniques used here, you can check his course at <https://www.udemy.com/course/practical-ethical-hacking/>

@PyroTek3 for his : <https://adsecurity.org>

@lydericlefebvre for his notebook: <https://lydericlefebvre.gitbook.io/cheatsheet/>

@harmj0y for his blog : <http://www.harmj0y.net/blog>

and many many others in the infosec community :)&#x20;

Hope you'll find it useful.


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