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AdFind and AdMod Production Releases

by @ Wednesday, January 27th, 2021. Filed under tech, updates

Hi, I just wanted to touch base on the upcoming releases. I thought I would be releasing new production versions of AdFind and AdMod at the beginning of the month. Obviously that did not happen. I ran into a few bugs I needed to deal with and most recently ran into something I really wanted […]

ESAE (aka Red Forest) is finally dead. About time.

by @ Sunday, December 20th, 2020. Filed under tech

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security/compass/esae-retirement ”We have found that ESAE projects are often detrimental to overall security posture as they are high cost, difficult to use and support, and provide a limited set of security (only Active Directory administrators and only preventive controls).” What took so long to figure that out? Oh, they knew, they just didn’t have something […]

Beta versions of AdFind V01.53.00 and AdMod V01.21.00

by @ Sunday, December 20th, 2020. Filed under tech

For a short time only I have the latest daily build Beta versions of AdFind V01.53.00 and AdMod V01.21.00 out on the joeware website at https://www.joeware.net/downloads/beta/20201231_expire/ As the folder name implies, these versions will expire on December 31, 2020 UTC. These may actually be the Release Candidates unless I find something in the next week […]

A Glimpse At Some AdMod Security Descriptor Fun…

by @ Monday, November 23rd, 2020. Filed under tech

So say you hate Account Operators group as much as I do and want to just strip the AO ACEs off of objects… Then this output below is something you will like… Less than 30 seconds to strip all AO access off of 20 objects remotely from a non-domain joined PC over wireless to a […]

Looking for the proper Holiday Ornament for this very tricky year?

by @ Sunday, November 22nd, 2020. Filed under general

Look no further, check out the custom ornament my niece put together just for 2020. https://www.etsy.com/shop/CustomDesignByBrooke ENJOY!    joe Rating 4.00 out of 5

9 out of 10 hackers prefer AdFind for AD Recon…

by @ Saturday, October 10th, 2020. Filed under general

https://thedfirreport.com/2020/10/08/ryuks-return/ This isn’t the first I have read about AdFind being used by bad actors, it won’t be the last. I first started hearing about AdFind being used in exploits and recon work roughly 2.5 or so years ago when IR teams and Security Researchers started emailing me about it and asking for hashes of […]

Beta version of AdMod and DACLs…

by @ Tuesday, August 18th, 2020. Filed under tech

Thoughts? [Tue 08/18/2020  0:24:46.40] E:\DEV\cpp\vs\AdMod\Debug>adfind -f ou=tobedeleted  -jsdenl AdFind V01.53.00cppBETA Joe Richards (support@joeware.net) July 2020 Using server: LO-DC4.lockout.test.loc:389 Directory: Windows Server 2019 (10.0.17134.1) Base DN: DC=lockout,DC=test,DC=loc dn:OU=tobedeleted,DC=lockout,DC=test,DC=loc [OWNER] LOCKOUT\Domain Admins [GROUP] LOCKOUT\Domain Admins [DACL] (FLAGS:INHERIT) [DACL] OBJ ALLOW;;[CR CHILD][DEL CHILD];inetOrgPerson;;BUILTIN\Account Operators [DACL] OBJ ALLOW;;[CR CHILD][DEL CHILD];computer;;BUILTIN\Account Operators [DACL] OBJ ALLOW;;[CR CHILD][DEL CHILD];group;;BUILTIN\Account Operators [DACL] OBJ […]

Clearing the DENY DELETE EVERYONE from OUs with AdFind|AdMod

by @ Thursday, July 9th, 2020. Filed under tech

Another common thing that people want to do from the command line with AdFind | AdMod is to clear the “Protect object from accidental deletion” setting that is implemented with a deny delete ACE on the object, specifically [DACL] DENY;;[DEL TREE][DEL];;;Everyone As mentioned previously, the Security Descriptor is a BLOB so you have to deal […]

How Do I Make an Object’s Security Descriptor Inheritable and also while I am at it… resetting from AdminSDHolder…

by @ Thursday, July 9th, 2020. Filed under tech

I recently received an email of: <SNIP> I have a bunch of previously sensitive&protected accounts where I like to enable inheritance.. Is it possible to remove protected inheritance flag with admod? <SNIP> The quick answer to the direct question is yes, there is an easy way to turn inheritance back on for an arbitrary object […]

Windows Server 2003 Support for AdFind??

by @ Sunday, February 9th, 2020. Filed under general, tech

Out of curiosity how many people need to run my tools on pre-Windows Server 2008 machines? I.E. Windows 2000, XP, 2003, etc? I was just alerted this last week by a random Russian user that AdFind doesn’t run ON Windows Server 2003 X64. I did some testing and that is correct, in fact it won’t […]

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