certipy
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Audited by Gen Agent Trust Hub on Sep 5, 2026
Risk Level: MEDIUMCOMMAND_EXECUTIONPRIVILEGE_ESCALATIONEXTERNAL_DOWNLOADSCREDENTIALS_UNSAFEDATA_EXFILTRATION
Full Analysis
- [COMMAND_EXECUTION]: The skill contains a large collection of shell commands designed to be executed in an Active Directory environment. These commands perform network enumeration, manipulate domain objects, and initiate authentication attempts.
- [PRIVILEGE_ESCALATION]: The primary function of the skill is to document and facilitate privilege escalation within Active Directory. It provides step-by-step guides for exploiting ADCS misconfigurations to escalate from a standard domain user to a Domain Administrator.
- [EXTERNAL_DOWNLOADS]: The instructions direct the user to install the
certipy-adpackage and reference the use of external scripts such ascoercer.py,PetitPotam.py, andsecretsdump.py. These tools are not provided within the skill package and are referenced without version pinning or integrity validation. - [CREDENTIALS_UNSAFE]: The skill documentation frequently provides command examples that require passing sensitive credentials, including plaintext passwords and NTLM hashes, as command-line arguments. This practice results in sensitive data being exposed in process listings and shell history files.
- [DATA_EXFILTRATION]: The skill describes methods for harvesting NTLM hashes from privileged accounts, such as Domain Controllers and Administrators, through PKINIT authentication mechanisms and PAC extraction techniques.
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