<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>BloodHound on Myles Nieman — Blog</title><link>https://blog.msnieman.com/tags/bloodhound/</link><description>Recent content in BloodHound on Myles Nieman — Blog</description><generator>Hugo</generator><language>en-us</language><lastBuildDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://blog.msnieman.com/tags/bloodhound/index.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title>Freelancer</title><link>https://blog.msnieman.com/writeups/freelancer/</link><pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://blog.msnieman.com/writeups/freelancer/</guid><description>An IDOR in a base64-encoded OTP URL allows hijacking an admin account on a freelancer platform, exposing an MSSQL terminal; privilege escalation through MSSQL sysadmin and xp_cmdshell delivers a Defender-evading shell, a plaintext SQL service password leads to the mikasa account, volatility analysis of a memory dump recovers lorra199&amp;rsquo;s credentials, and BloodHound reveals GenericWrite to a group that permits RBCD — ultimately yielding a domain admin via S4U2Proxy on the DC.</description></item><item><title>Playground</title><link>https://blog.msnieman.com/writeups/playground/</link><pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://blog.msnieman.com/writeups/playground/</guid><description>A Windows domain controller with restricted anonymous access is probed with SMB null sessions, kerbrute, and extensive RPC endpoint mapping; the notes document deep enumeration through backup and web shares but do not reach a foothold — this is a partial writeup covering enumeration only.</description></item><item><title>PingPong</title><link>https://blog.msnieman.com/writeups/pingpong/</link><pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://blog.msnieman.com/writeups/pingpong/</guid><description>An assumed-breach scenario starting with domain credentials for c.roberts; initial BloodHound enumeration of ping.htb identifies ADCS as a potential privilege escalation path.</description></item><item><title>Pirate</title><link>https://blog.msnieman.com/writeups/pirate/</link><pubDate>Sun, 01 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://blog.msnieman.com/writeups/pirate/</guid><description>Starting with provided pentest credentials against a Windows domain controller, BloodHound reveals two Kerberoastable accounts; the ADM service ticket hash resists cracking, leaving the box incomplete at the enumeration stage.</description></item><item><title>Succession</title><link>https://blog.msnieman.com/writeups/succession/</link><pubDate>Wed, 14 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://blog.msnieman.com/writeups/succession/</guid><description>Given SSH credentials for david.smith, BloodHound and netexec confirm the BadSuccessor (dMSA delegation abuse) primitive; SharpSuccessor creates a weaponized dMSA in the HR OU that inherits Administrator privileges, and Rubeus is used to request a service ticket granting domain-wide access.</description></item><item><title>Sauna</title><link>https://blog.msnieman.com/writeups/sauna/</link><pubDate>Sat, 06 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://blog.msnieman.com/writeups/sauna/</guid><description>Staff names harvested from Egotistical Bank&amp;rsquo;s website yield an AS-REP roastable account; cracking the hash gives fsmith, whose WinRM session reveals autologon credentials for svc_loanmgr — an account with DCSync rights used to dump the Administrator hash.</description></item><item><title>Object</title><link>https://blog.msnieman.com/writeups/object/</link><pubDate>Sat, 23 Aug 2025 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://blog.msnieman.com/writeups/object/</guid><description>An open Jenkins registration on port 8080 lets an attacker create a job that executes arbitrary commands as oliver; Jenkins credential files are decrypted offline to recover a WinRM password, and a multi-hop AD ACL chain — ForceChangePassword on smith, GenericWrite on maria, WriteOwner on Domain Admins — yields a full domain compromise.</description></item><item><title>Forest</title><link>https://blog.msnieman.com/writeups/forest/</link><pubDate>Thu, 21 Aug 2025 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://blog.msnieman.com/writeups/forest/</guid><description>Anonymous RPC enumeration yields a user list for AS-REP Roasting; the svc-alfresco hash cracks to a password that enables a BloodHound-guided DCSync attack via Exchange Windows Permissions WriteDACL, recovering the Administrator NTLM hash for a pass-the-hash shell.</description></item><item><title>Blackfield</title><link>https://blog.msnieman.com/writeups/blackfield/</link><pubDate>Tue, 12 Aug 2025 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://blog.msnieman.com/writeups/blackfield/</guid><description>Anonymous SMB access to a profiles share leaks hundreds of domain usernames; AS-REP roasting cracks the support account&amp;rsquo;s hash, and BloodHound reveals a ForceChangePassword edge to audit2020, whose access to the forensic share exposes an lsass.dmp containing svc_backup&amp;rsquo;s NTLM hash; SeBackupPrivilege on svc_backup is then abused with a VSS diskshadow script to extract NTDS.dit and dump the domain.</description></item></channel></rss>