Hacktricks | Semachineaccountprivilege

The Primary Attack Vector: RBCD (Resource-Based Constrained Delegation)

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When a user with this privilege creates a machine account, they are granted permissions over that specific object. This ownership is the "hook" that attackers use to manipulate AD attributes for malicious purposes. If there is a computer in the domain with enabled (e

If there is a computer in the domain with enabled (e.g., a web server), you can coerce it to authenticate to your machine account. When it does, it sends its TGT (Ticket Granting Ticket) to you, which you can inject to impersonate any user. In a standard Windows domain

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In a standard Windows domain, the SeMachineAccountPrivilege allows a designated user or group to register a new computer object in the directory. This is governed by the ms-DS-MachineAccountQuota attribute on the domain head, which defaults to .