This guide demonstrates an end-to-end Active Directory lab engagement driven by plain-English prompts to Claude Desktop through HexStrike AI and NetExec, covering reconnaissance, exploitation, post-exploitation, and defensive log review. It shows how weak passwords, roastable accounts, delegation flaws, and credential storage issues can lead from initial access to Domain Admin and durable persistence in #IGNITE.LOCAL #NetExec #HexStrikeAI #ClaudeDesktop #LAPS #DCSync
Keypoints
- HexStrike AI connects Claude Desktop to NetExec for prompt-driven Active Directory operations.
- Read-only LDAP and SMB enumeration maps users, groups, shares, policies, and attack paths.
- A single password spray with Ignite@987 lands Domain Admin due to no lockout threshold.
- Post-exploitation includes RDP access, password resets, LSA/SAM/LAPS dumping, and secret harvesting.
- The guide closes with persistence creation and event-log review for defender detection patterns.