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Compromising the ShadowGate Active Directory lab through a chained attack path — from AS-REP roasting and ACL abuse via Shadow Credentials, to coercing the Domain Controller with PetitPotam and relaying its authentication into a certificate-based DCSync — culminating in full domain compromise via the krbtgt hash.

In this HackSmarter SysAdmins lab, I chained anonymous FTP disclosure, OSINT, SNMPv3 username and credential reuse, and a critical sudo privilege escalation (CVE-2025-32463) to move from initial access to full root compromise.

This is a Medium AWS Challenge Lab, it is an IAM privilege escalation via access key rotation abuse.