Security: Auditing Active Directory Database with NtdsAudit

This time I am going to talk about a method to perform audits of the contents of the Active Directory database (NTDS.dit). The tool called NtdsAudit was created by Dionach, here I leave the link so you can see the functionality of the application: https://github.com/dionach/NtdsAudit As explained on the tool’s web page NtdsAudit is an application that helps to audit Active Directory databases. It provides some useful statistics related to accounts and passwords. It can also be used to extract password hashes for later cracking. ...

February 20, 2023 · 7 min · Jonathan Colon Feliciano