An introduction to offensive capabilities of Active Directory on UNIX
Summary: Tim Wadhwa-Brown of Portcullis Labs authored a Cisco Talos post, presented at Black Hat Europe, on research into common Active Directory integration solutions that join UNIX infrastructure to enterprise AD forests, with SSSD named as the case studied. The research produced tactics, tools, and procedures that could help an attacker breach an enterprise, and the team began documenting detection and response strategies for blue teams, with the talk materials to be posted afterward on their site and GitHub repo.
What's compelling: UNIX hosts joined to Active Directory largely lack Group Policy, so policies for sudo and similar tools are typically pushed as flat files to hosts - a distribution path an attacker who has already learned these integration solutions can target.
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