ad-attack-patterns SKILL.md skillA
ad-attack-patterns from dreadnode/capabilities is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add dreadnode/capabilities/ad-attack-patterns@git:20261015.1440f90Pins git:20261015.1440f90 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- dreadnode/capabilities
- Path
capabilities/network-ops/skills/ad-attack-patterns/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 3
- Latest version
- git:20261015.1440f90, committed Oct 15, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jul 12, 2026
- Size
- 10,088 bytes
- Repository stars
- 22
- License
- MIT
Common Active Directory attack chains with tool mappings. Covers Kerberoasting, AS-REP roasting, RBCD, AD CS, DCSync, relay attacks, and credential reuse patterns. Use during exploitation and privilege escalation phases.
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
# AD Attack Patterns Reference for common AD attack chains. Each pattern lists prerequisites, tool sequence, and success criteria. ## Attack Chains ### Kerberoasting **Prerequisites:** Valid domain credentials (any privilege level), target user with SPN. | Step | Tool | Action | |---|---|---| | 1. Identify targets | netexec LDAP `--kerberoasting` | Find users with SPNs | | 2. Request tickets | Impacket `GetUserSPNs.py` | Extract TGS tickets | | 3. Crack tickets | Hashcat mode 13100 or John `krb5tgs` | Recover plaintext password | | 4. Verify credential | netexec SMB auth check | Confirm password works, check admin | **Success:** "Pwn3d!" in netexec output or successful auth. ### AS-REP Roasting **Prerequisites:** List of usernames OR valid domain creds. Target users with "Do not require Kerberos preauthentication." | Step | Tool | Action | |---|---|---| | 1. Identify targets | netexec LDAP `--asreproast` | Find users without preauth | | 2. Request AS-REP | Impacket `GetNPUsers.py` | Extract AS-REP hashes | | 3. Crack hashes | Hashcat mode 18200 or John `krb5asrep` | Recover plaintext password | | 4. Verify credential | netexec SMB auth check | Confirm and assess access | …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add dreadnode/capabilities/ad-attack-patterns@sha256:be14251d35d283e1The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261015.1440f90, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
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Versions
The registry has recorded 3 versions of this file, between Jul 12, 2026 and Oct 15, 2026, about one every 47 days.
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| git:20261015.1440f90 latest | 2026-10-15 | 1440f90 | 10,088 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260714.bd592f2 | 2026-07-14 | bd592f2 | 9,975 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260712.f8f9945 | 2026-07-12 | f8f9945 | 9,591 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (10088 bytes)
- pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
- pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
- pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
- pass: No credential-shaped string
- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
- pass: No text hidden with inline styles
- pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
- pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
- pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
- pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
- pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
- pass: No link to a raw IP address
- pass: No script tag
Source
dreadnode/capabilities · 22 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-02 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_gh2nxk4lolllymo3 GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=dreadnode/capabilities/ad-attack-patterns GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/be14251d35d283e164da63e1b8f166cca67198ba23ff05baeba2ec79bfdd4c4e
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