INTERNAL NETWORK & ACTIVE DIRECTORY
Find the path from an ordinary foothold to privileged access.
zer0cipher tests how identities, credentials, services, trust relationships, and configuration weaknesses combine across an internal network — then records the evidence behind each validated step.
Book a DemoOne validated pathOrdinary foothold to domain-wide access.
Each hop is a technique the engagement actually validated, and each node carries the evidence behind the claim. An illustrative path — not a customer result.
01Standard userFoothold
LLMNR / NBT-NS poisoning
02NTLM materialCaptured credential
NTLM relay
03Local adminValidated access
Kerberoast · lateral movement
04Domain controllerDirectory replication
DCSync · trust path
05Domain / forestPrivileged access
How the engagement works
Reach it, prove the credential, chain the impact.
01
Establish what is reachable.
- Network discovery
- Reachable systems, services, and candidate administrative surfaces.
- Directory analysis
- Users, groups, service accounts, permissions, sessions, and trust relationships.
- Attack-path context
- Connect a weakness to the identities and systems that turn it into impact.
02
Treat credentials as evidence.
- Credential capture
- Broadcast-name resolution, NTLM, Kerberos, and supported exposure paths.
- Password recovery
- CPU or supported GPU-backed cracking where data and policy allow.
- Access validation
- Differentiate a valid identity from administrative access on a specific target.
03
Chain access into impact.
- Escalate
- Kerberoasting, NTLM relay, AD CS assessment, and local-administrator validation.
- Move
- Lateral movement between validated hosts and identities.
- Reach
- Directory replication and cross-domain trust analysis toward the objective.
Technique support
Known techniques, reported honestly.
KerberoastingNTLM relayAD CS assessmentLocal-admin validationLateral movementDirectory replicationCross-domain trust analysis
Technique support is not a promise that every environment contains or permits every path. zer0cipher reports what the engagement actually validates, and the final record shows the starting condition, each validated transition, affected assets and identities, the outcome, and the evidence behind the claim — without exposing secrets in customer-facing views.
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