As we progress in building our own verification lab, it's worth keeping in mind that the majority of corporate companies utilize Microsoft Active Directory for user administrative management and resource sharing activities, such as printer use, file sharing, and identity management. Attackers are no longer interested in just running the command on the server or shutting it down; they are now more focused on owning a full domain controller, which can potentially be the DNA of a company. We will perform some advanced attacks on Active Directory and the DNS server. In this section, we will install Active Directory on a Windows 2008 R2 server.
We will perform the same steps that we performed ...
