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Kerberos keytab utilities

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Disclosed
N/A
Created
Jan 27, 2023

Description

Utilities for interacting with keytab files, which can store the hashed passwords of one or
more principals.

Discovered keytab files can be used to generate Kerberos Ticket Granting Tickets, or bruteforced
offline.

Keytab files can be also useful for decrypting Kerberos traffic using Wireshark dissectors,
including the krbtgt encrypted blobs if the AES password hash is used.

Author

alanfoster

References

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/keytab
    msf auxiliary(keytab) > show actions
        ...actions...
    msf auxiliary(keytab) > set ACTION < action-name >
    msf auxiliary(keytab) > show options
        ...show and set options...
    msf auxiliary(keytab) > run
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