🖥 Building an Active Directory Lab 🔐

Robert Scocca
17 min readMay 31, 2020

In this guide, we will build an Active Directory environment in a virtualized lab and see how features can be exploited to hack Windows users. Active Directory(AD) is Microsoft’s service to manage Windows domain networks. 95% of Fortune 100 companies implement AD into their networks. If you work in IT in any way, shape, or form… you need to know how AD works.

The way you can use the same set of credentials, to log into any Windows machine within your given institution, is done though Active Directory. AD can easily span whole corporations and campus’s, acting as…

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