Offensive security assessments
V. Cross Trust Attacks
We validate this area during scoped assessments, documenting impact and remediation guidance.
Why it matters
- Learn to elevate privileges from Domain Admin of a child domain to Enterprise Admin on the forest root by abusing Trust keys and the krbtgt account. - Execute intra-forest trust attacks to access resources across the forest. - Abuse database links to achieve code execution across the forest by using just the databases.
How we test it
Our operators follow a structured checklist for this topic, adapted to your API surface and authentication model.
Testing approach
- Structured validation of V. Cross Trust Attacks during scoped assessment.
- Evidence captured with reproducible steps for your engineering team.
What we look for
- Misconfigurations and control gaps related to V. Cross Trust Attacks.
- Exploitable paths that could affect confidentiality, integrity, or availability.
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