DSInternals VS PowerSploit

Thirdly dsinternals suite can be used to resurrect domain controllers from the dead.. it works very well and is pretty easy - https://github.com/MichaelGrafnetter/DSInternals/blob/master/Documentation/PowerShell/New-ADDBRestoreFromMediaScript.md - the person who created this is nothing short of a wizard.

Greetings. I would like to get recommendations for tools that will allow me to audit the password strength of users in Windows Active Directory and Google Workspace. I came across this one for AD that I plan to try. https://github.com/MichaelGrafnetter/DSInternals/blob/master/Documentation/PowerShell/Test-PasswordQuality.md

As you have no AD specific backup or recovery plan nor do you have an idea of when ransomware was copied into the environment I.e. how long was it sitting dormant? I’d suggest you take the backup you have then use this script from DSInternals - https://github.com/MichaelGrafnetter/DSInternals/blob/master/Documentation/PowerShell/New-ADDBRestoreFromMediaScript.md - to restore ONLY Active Directory (NTDS + SYSVOl) into clean media (needs to be the same major OS version).

Note**:** The same can be done using the DSInternals Set-SamAccountPasswordHash command.

To find out, you can use the DSInternals command Test-PasswordQuality. It will extract the password hashes for all your user accounts and compare them against the password hashes for a dictionary of weak passwords.

Recovery is still an option with this module: https://github.com/MichaelGrafnetter/DSInternals/blob/master/Documentation/PowerShell/New-ADDBRestoreFromMediaScript.md

Load DSInternals Powershell Module (Install-Module DSInternals -Force OR https://github.com/MichaelGrafnetter/DSInternals

FYI, there's a PS module you can use to check passwords. Here's a link to some info about that: https://github.com/MichaelGrafnetter/DSInternals/blob/master/Documentation/PowerShell/Get-ADReplAccount.md

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