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SixDegreesofDomainAdminUsingGraphTheorytoAccelerateRedTeamOperations

DEFCON24– LasVegas,NV2016

AndyRobbins- @_wald0 RohanVazarkar - @CptJesus WillSchroeder- @harmj0y

AboutUs– AndyRobbins

• OffensiveNetworkServicesTeamLeadatVerisGroup’sAdaptiveThreatDivision• Redteamandpenetrationtestlead• Performedhundredsofnetworkpenetrationtests• WithBrandonHenry,identifiedcriticalvulnerabilityinACHfileprocessingprocedures

AboutUs– RohanVazarkar

• PenetrationtesteratVerisGroup’sAdaptiveThreatDivision• Co-authorandmajorcontributortomanyprojects,includingEyeWitness andPythonEmpire• Presenter:BSidesDC,BSidesLV,BSidesDE,BlackHatArsenal• Trainer:BlackHatUSA2016

AboutUs– WillSchroeder

• ResearcheratVerisGroup’sAdaptiveThreatDivision• Co-founderoftheVeil-Framework,PowerView,PowerUp,Empire/EmPyre• ActivePowerSploit devleoper• MicrosoftPowerShell/CDMMVP• SpeakerandvariousconsandBlackHat trainer

“Defendersthinkinlists.Attackersthinkingraphs.Aslongasthisistrue,attackerswin.”- JohnLambert,GeneralManager,MicrosoftThreatIntelligenceCenter

Agenda

• TheCurrentStateofADDomainPrivilegeEscalation• TheConceptof“DerivativeLocalAdmin”• ACrashCourseinGraphTheory• StealthyDataCollectionwithPowerView• TheReleaseofBloodHound• ClosingRemarksandFuturePlans

PriorWork

• ”DerivativeLocalAdmin”byJustinWarner(@sixdub)-http://www.sixdub.net/?p=591• ActiveDirectoryControlPathsbyEmmanuelGrasandLucasBouillot -https://github.com/ANSSI-FR/AD-control-paths• OneofthebestADSecurityresources- https://adsecurity.org/

TheCurrentStateofActiveDirectoryDomainPrivilegeEscalation

CurrentStateofADDomainPriv Esc

• ActiveDirectoryisubiquitous.• LOTSofsecurityresearchdevotedtoActiveDirectory• Sometimeswegeteasybuttons!J• Easybuttonshaveatendencytodisappear.• Thebesttradecraftincludes,butdoesnotrelyoneasybuttons

ATaleofTwoNetworks

ATaleofTwoNetworks

TheConceptof“DerivativeLocalAdmin”

DerivativeLocalAdmin

• Thechainingorlinkingofadministratorrightsthroughcompromisingotherprivilegedaccounts• Alsoreferredtoasa“Snowballattack”byMicrosoftResearchasearlyas2009• “DerivativeLocalAdmin”firstcoinedinthisblogpost:sixdub.net/asdf

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DerivativeLocalAdmin

• Thisoftenoccursduetorunawaynestedgroups,makingitdifficulttodeterminewhotheeffectiveadminsareonagivensystem.

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DerivativeLocalAdmin– ForwardEscalation

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DerivativeLocalAdmin– ReverseAnalysis

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DerivativeLocalAdmin– TheCombinatorialExplosion

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Challengeswiththisapproach

• Doesn’tscale• Extremelytimeconsumingandtedious• Maynotidentifytheshortest(andcertainlynotall)pathpossible• DomainAdminmightnotbenecessary• Limitedsituationalawareness

ACrashCourseinGraphTheory

GraphTheoryCrashCourse

• Graphsarecomprisedofvertices(ornodes)andedges(orrelationships).• Verticesthatshareanedgearesaidtobe“adjacent”• Edgescanbedirected(or“one-way”)orundirected(or“bidirectional”)• Apathisasetofverticesandedgeslinkingonevertextoanother,whetherthoseverticesareadjacentornot

GraphTheoryCrashCourse

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BloodHound GraphDesign

StealthyDataCollectionwithPowerView

Thanks?

•“ThebesttoolthesedaysforunderstandingwindowsnetworksisPowerview [1].”

-PhineasFisherhttp://pastebin.com/raw/0SNSvyjJ

PowerView

•ApurePowerShellv2.0domain/networksituationalawarenesstool• Fullyself-containedandloadableinmemory• NowpartofPowerSploit™(notreallytrademarked)

•Builttoautomatelargecomponentsofthetradecraftonourredteamengagements

•CollectsthedatathatBloodHound isbuilton

Who’sLoggedInWhere?

•Wedeemthis“userhunting”

• Invoke-UserHunter isbuilton:• Get-NetSession – whohassessionswitharemotemachine• Get-NetLoggedOn – who’sloggedinonwhatmachine• Get-LoggedOnLocal – who’sloggedinonamachine(withremoteregistry)

• “Stealth”approach:• Enumeratecommonlytraffickedservers(i.e.fileservers)andremotesessioninformationforeach

WhoCanAdminWhat?

•DidyouknowthatWindowsallowsanydomain-authenticatedusertoenumeratethemembersofalocal grouponaremote machine?• EitherthroughtheNetLocalGroupGetMembers()Win32APIcallortheWinNTserviceprovider

•PowerView:• Get-NetLocalGroup –ComputerName IP[-API]

WhoCanAdminWhat(GPOEdition)?

• Let’scorrelatewhatGPOssetthelocaladministratorsgroupwithwithOUs/sitstheseGPOsareappliedto• LetsusdeterminewhohasadminrightswherebasedonGPOsettings• Thisisn’tasupersimpleprocess…

• PowerView’s Find-GPOLocationwillenumeratethisforaspecifictargetordumpallrelationshipsbydefault

Who’sinWhatGroups?

• Nottoocrazy,justenumerateallgroupsandallmembersofeachgroupthroughLDAP/ADSIsearches

• Get-NetGroup |Get-NetGroupMember

• That’sit!

BringingitAllTogether

• TheBloodHound ingestor isacustomizedversionofPowerViewwiththefollowingtwofunctionsadded:• Export-BloodHoundData – exportsPowerViewdataobjectstotheBloodHoundNeo4jbatchRESTful API• Get-BloodHoundData – automatesthedataingestionandpipesresultstoExport-BloodHoundData

•WehaveaPowerShellv2.0ingestiontoolthat:• Doesn’tneedadministratorrightstopulllotsofdata• DirectlyingestsdataintoBloodHound

TheReleaseofBloodHound

TheReleaseofBloodHound

• Easy-to-use,intuitivewebinterfaceforinteractingwithagraphdatabase• BuiltwithLinkurious.js• LotsoffuncapabilitiesthatRohanwilldemorightnow

ClosingRemarksandFuturePlans

FuturePlans

• IncreasethescopeofelementsmodeledintheBloodHound graph,includingADobjectACLs,GPOs,andmore• ContinuedresearchontheapplicationsofgraphtheorytoActiveDirectorysecurity• Defense-centriccapability• Continuingmaturationofdatacollection,ingestion,andanalysismethods

ClosingRemarks

• Asdefensiveposturesimprove,attackpathswillincreasinglyrelyonenvironmentalmisconfigurations,andpoorimplementationsofleastprivilegeandadministratoraccounthygiene• Graphtheoryenablesrapidattackpathanalysis• BloodHound isafreeandopensourceActiveDirectorydomainprivilegeescalationcapabilitywhichutilizesgraphtheory

GoGetBloodHound!

• https://www.github.com/adaptivethreat/bloodhound

• ContactUs:• AndyRobbins-- @_wald0• RohanVazarkar -- @CptJesus• WillSchroeder-- @harmj0y