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Kerberos Silver/Golden/Diamond/Sapphire Ticket Forging

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Kerberos Silver/Golden/Diamond/Sapphire Ticket Forging

Created
01/27/2023

Description

This module forges a Kerberos ticket. Four different techniques can be used: - Silver ticket: Using a service account hash, craft a ticket impersonating any user and privileges to that account. - Golden ticket: Using the krbtgt hash, craft a ticket impersonating any user and privileges. - Diamond ticket: Authenticate to the domain controller, and using the krbtgt hash, copy the PAC from the authenticated user to a forged ticket. - Sapphire ticket: Use the S4U2Self+U2U trick to retrieve the PAC of another user, then use the krbtgt hash to craft a forged ticket.

Author(s)

  • Benjamin Delpy
  • Dean Welch
  • alanfoster
  • smashery

Development

Module Options

To display the available options, load the module within the Metasploit console and run the commands 'show options' or 'show advanced':

msf > use auxiliary/admin/kerberos/forge_ticket
msf auxiliary(forge_ticket) > show actions
    ...actions...
msf auxiliary(forge_ticket) > set ACTION < action-name >
msf auxiliary(forge_ticket) > show options
    ...show and set options...
msf auxiliary(forge_ticket) > run

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