Lab Path
AD attacks literacy path on $LAB_AD — enum to paths to defense to detection to report with ethics gates.
Visual · t25_lab_path
Lab path = visual literacy chain on YOUR $LAB_AD. Original Cyberlium.
Draw the path from lab RoE to purple retest — with stop signs at every stranger-domain shortcut.
Document literacy path: $LAB_AD deploy → RoE → structure/enum literacy → auth abuse named → paths (DCSync/ACL/delegation) → defense hardening → Event IDs/ATT&CK/honeytoken → findings/remediation/purple → share-safe report. Ethics gates: stranger AD, attack cookbooks, cred dumps, log clearing, unauthorized SIEM — refused paths labeled red. UTC milestones and artifact IDs per station. Mermaid or sketch chmod 600. Honest N/A if brief skipped live purple — tabletop marked. Defender breakpoint: where tiering or detection shortened path to finding.
1. Path stations
RoE, enum, auth named, paths, defense, detection, report, purple retest — eight minimum.
Each station links evidence index row and module lesson ID.
Command guide
Try these commands — Path stations
═══ WINDOWS / POWERSHELL (Active Directory Lab) ═══
Check current user, domain context, and security privileges
Command — copy this
whoami /user /groups /priv
Query active Domain Controller and trust relationships
Command — copy this
nltest /dsgetdc:$env:USERDOMAIN nltest /domain_trusts
List password policy across the domain
Command — copy this
net accounts /domain
Check Kerberos ticket cache
Command — copy this
klist
═══ LINUX / BASH (Lab Network) ═══ Test DNS SRV resolution for Active Directory services
Command — copy this
dig _ldap._tcp.dc._msdcs.lab.local SRV +short dig _kerberos._tcp.dc._msdcs.lab.local SRV +short
Primary tools to practice this lesson: curl, grep. Reference sites: GOAD (https://github.com/Orange-Cyberdefense/GOAD); TryHackMe AD (https://tryhackme.com/); Hack The Box (https://www.hackthebox.com/). Run every command in the box — install first, then the usage lines — only on YOUR lab / program scope.
2. Ethics overlay
Red stops at stranger domain, DCSync cookbook, Kerberoast on unauthorized AD, hash dump export.
Named literacy branch always available — attack branch refused.
3. Purple breakpoint
Mark where alert fired or gap documented after remediation.
One paragraph detection uplift from YOUR $LAB_AD path.
4. What you ship: lab path diagram
Literacy path with ethics gates + UTC milestones — chmod 600.
5. What you record before the next lesson
Lab path diagram path.
6. Wrong vs right: stranger-domain attacks vs lab AD literacy
Worked failure — same MSF word, opposite target. Right never needs a café Wi-Fi or classmate laptop.
- Wrong: Lab path includes stranger-domain takeover shortcut lane.
- Right: Lab path documented for $LAB_AD. Next: Evidence Pack.
Mission: lab path diagram
1) Map eight stations. 2) Add five ethics gates. 3) UTC milestones per station. 4) Link evidence index IDs.
Stuck? Ask Cyberlium AI Mentor
Ask Mentor: “Diagram vs numbered list for capstone?”
APPLY: Lab path documents:
APPLY: True or False: DCSync cookbook shortcut on path OK.
APPLY: Path ends at:
Evidence Pack
Part of Active Directory Attacks — Capstone and Topic Quiz.
Lab — Capstone
Part of Active Directory Attacks — Capstone and Topic Quiz.
Quiz — Active Directory Attacks Topic
Part of Active Directory Attacks — Capstone and Topic Quiz.