We covered HackTheBox Active as part of CREST CRT (registered penetration tester track). We went through Exploiting Group Policy Preferences in Windows Active Directory as well as Kerebroasting to achieve administrator shell.

Active is an easy to medium difficulty machine, which features two very prevalent techniques to gain privileges within an Active Directory environment.

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