ADRecon VS PowerSploit

If you're planning to use Active Directory and/or Azure AD, run ADRecon/AzureADRecon and Bloodhound frequently and review in depth. Run ScoutSuite frequently and review as part of a normal operational cycle (e.g., at weekly team meetings make the results available and set aside 15 minutes to discuss and make assignments). Look critically at where these three tools overlap within two or three degrees of separation from your jump hosts (e.g., hosts/nodes that are one or two devices away and users/security groups that are one or two devices away) for help prioritizing when you have too many high-risk/high-impact items to look through.

You can run ADRecon to create an Excel report with all AD objects like users, groups, computers etc. Very useful to get an overview of you AD. Especially inspect the Excel tab "users" and go through the columns "info" and "description". Many companies store cleartext credentials or initial passwords in these fields. Those fields can be read by any authenticated AD user and is not a great place to put sensitive data

The correct thing to do was importing the Recon.psm1 module, as instructed in the PowerSploit's documentation.

I joined one of the clients to the domain, then downloaded powerview.ps1 from https://github.com/PowerShellMafia/PowerSploit/blob/master/Recon/PowerView.ps1).

You can grab PowerSploit . Most of the scripts will trigger powershell's Antimalware Scan Interface (AMSI) if you have real-time protection enabled. To be sure, use Invoke-Mimikatz.ps1 as AMSI blocks certain keywords like “invoke-mimikatz” or “amsiutils” since they are widely known to be used for exploitation. So I suggest you use them. Note that you can hide some malicious scripts by running an amsi bypass, thats for another day.

PowerSploit

Because the SYSVOL share is open to Authenticated Users, any user in the organization can read the files stored there. Therefore, any user account can find and decrypt the Group Policy file and thereby gain access to the plaintext passwords for Administrator accounts. The PowerSploit command Get-GPPPassword will find and decrypt these passwords for you.

Please see PowerShellMafia/PowerSploit for more information about how to run an EXE from the memory. Find examples here: GitHub Examples

Get-NetUser command of PowerSploit

The first step is to find out what trusts exist. There are several ways to do this, but two we will leverage through PowerShell are the PowerSploit framework and the Active Directory PowerShell module.

Short answer; yes. See PowerUp.ps1: https://github.com/PowerShellMafia/PowerSploit/blob/master/Privesc/PowerUp.ps1