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AD Architecture

This section covers Active Directory structure,Authentication Mechanism, it's usage and some terms that you get across a lot 🙂.

🧠 What’s Active Directory?​

Active Directory is a service my Microsoft for managing network resources

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🎯 What’s the Big Win?​

What’s the attacker trying to pull off here?

  • Gain unauthorized access
  • Extract sensitive data
  • Escalate privileges
  • Lateral movement across the network

🧰 Gear Up (Prereqs)​

Don’t go in empty-handed. What do you need beforehand?

  • Access to target or vulnerable endpoint
  • Specific app version or config
  • Recon data (subdomain, login page, etc.)
  • Tools (e.g., Burp, nmap, ffuf, etc.)

🚀 Launch Sequence (How-To)​

Here’s how the magic happens — step by step.

# Example flow:
1. Identify the injection point
2. Craft payload: ' OR '1'='1
3. Send request and observe results