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GOAD – A Comprehensive Guide To The Ultimate Active Directory Pentest Lab

GOAD is a pentest active directory LAB project. The purpose of this lab is to give pentesters a vulnerable Active directory environment ready to use to practice usual attack techniques.

Warning This lab is extremely vulnerable, do not reuse recipe to build your environment and do not deploy this environment on internet without isolation (this is a recommendation, use it as your own risk).
This repository was build for pentest practice.

Licenses

This lab use free windows VM only (180 days). After that delay enter a license on each server or rebuild all the lab (may be it’s time for an update ;))

Requirements

  • Used space
    • The lab takes about 77GB (but you have to get the space for the vms vagrant images windows server 2016 (22GB) / windows server 2019 (14GB) / ubuntu 18.04 (502M))
    • The total space needed for the lab is ~115 GB (and more if you take snapshots)
  • Linux operating system
    • The lab intend to be installed from a Linux host and was tested only on this.
    • Some people have successfully installed the lab from a windows OS, to do that they create the VMs with vagrant and have done the ansible provisioning part from a linux machine.
    • In this case the linux machine used to do the provisioning must be setup with one adapter on NAT and one adapter on the same virtual private network as the lab.

tldr; Quick Install

  • You are on linux, you already got virtualbox, vagrant and docker installed on your host and you know what you are doing, just run :
./goad.sh -t check -l GOAD -p virtualbox -m docker
./goad.sh -t install -l GOAD -p virtualbox  -m docker
  • Now you can grab a coffee ☕ it will take time 🙂

Installation

  • Installation depend of the provider you use, please follow the appropriate guide :
    • Install with Virtualbox
    • Install with VmWare
    • Install with Proxmox
    • Install with Azure
  • Installation is in three parts :
    1. Templating : this will create the template to use (needed only for proxmox)
    2. Providing : this will instantiate the virtual machines depending on your provider
    3. Provisioning : it is always made with ansible, it will install all the stuff to create the lab

Check Before Install

  • For linux users check dependencies installation before install :
./goad -t check -l <LAB> -p <PROVIDER> -m <ANSIBLE_RUN_METHOD>

For more information click here.

Varshini

Varshini is a Cyber Security expert in Threat Analysis, Vulnerability Assessment, and Research. Passionate about staying ahead of emerging Threats and Technologies.

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