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Lvl 99

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Grandmaster dreadnaught
Machine
Pirate
OS
Windows
Difficulty
Hard
Steps
6
Added
28 Feb 2026

Pre-Windows 2000 machine accounts read gMSA passwords; a PetitPotam relay and constrained delegation take WEB01, and an SPN hijack onto DC01$ gives domain admin.

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How it went

  1. 0
    nmap

    With assumed-breach pentest creds, LDAP enum maps delegation, gMSA accounts, and an IT group with Validated-SPN write.

  2. 1
    Pre-Win2000

    MS01$ and EXCH01$ are Pre-Windows 2000 accounts whose password is just the lowercase computer name.

  3. 2
    gMSA creds

    MS01$ sits in Domain Secure Servers and reads both gMSA passwords; gMSA_ADCS_prod$ gives a WinRM shell on DC01.

  4. 3
    NTLM relay

    A chisel SOCKS pivot reaches WEB01; PetitPotam coerces it and the relayed NTLM sets RBCD, impersonating Administrator on WEB01.

  5. 4
    a.white

    Dumping WEB01's LSA secrets recovers a.white's password; logging in as a.white grabs the user flag.

  6. 5
    delegation

    a.white force-changes a.white_adm, whose constrained delegation re-grants Administrator on WEB01.

  7. 6
    SPN hijack

    The IT group's Validated-SPN write moves HTTP/WEB01 onto DC01$, so S4U2Proxy issues a CIFS/DC01 ticket as Administrator, giving domain admin.