Note: Work related I do Active Directory stuff for a living. Security research to be more specific. One of my favorite niche AD topics is AdminSDHolder. It's even my vanity domain. I wrote a 159 pg book about AdminSDHolder. I'm kinda proud of it. specterops.io/resources/ad...

Seems Microsoft is doing some app and permission cleanups and tenant restrictions lately. RIP Microsoft Planner FOCI client.

Dirk-jan Mollema found one of the most severe vulnerabilities ever discovered in Microsoft Entra ID. One that could have compromised every tenant in the cloud. In this episode, we unpack the story, the stress, and the mindset behind responsible disclosure. 🔥

I've been researching the Microsoft cloud for almost 7 years now. A few months ago that research resulted in the most impactful vulnerability I will probably ever find: a token validation flaw allowing me to get Global Admin in any Entra ID tenant. Blog: dirkjanm.io/obtaining-gl...

📢 New date for my "Offensive Entra ID security" course: December 8-11th 2025. This will be the last event this year. The previous events sold out quite fast so don't wait too long if you want to attend! 😀 events.outsidersecurity.nl/entra-25-12/

It seems there now is a BOF implementation of ADSyncDecrypt to dump Entra ID connect creds 👀 github.com/Paradoxis/AD...

If you didn't find my Black Hat / Def Con slides yet, they are available on dirkjanm.io/talks . Also includes the demo videos where I use actor tokens from on-prem to access SharePoint online and get Global Admin.

🎉 Exciting news: The Office 365 Exchange Online SP privilege escalation we documented in "I SPy" is no longer possible! We've updated the post to reflect this. Thanks to Eli Guy for the tip on this one: securitylabs.datadoghq.com/articles/i-s...

The ADSyncCertDump tool is now part of the adconnectdump tools and can be used to extract SP credentials from Entra ID connect hosts. I will cover that during my BH/DC talks today and Friday! Tool is heavily based on Shwmae by @ethicalchaos.bsky.social Link: github.com/dirkjanm/adc...

It's been almost a year since my last blog... So, here is a new one: Extending AD CS attack surface to the cloud with Intune certificates. Also includes ESC1 over Intune (in some cases). dirkjanm.io/extending-ad... Oh, and a new tool for SCEP: github.com/dirkjanm/sce...

For those like me who prefer to stay in the terminal and want to call REST APIs like the Microsoft Graph without complicated commands or copy/pasting tokens: roadtx now has a graphrequest command to perform simple requests against these APIs and parse the JSON.

Teammate Leonid discovered a leaked credential that allowed anyone unauthorized access to all Microsoft tenants of orgs that use Synology's "Active Backup for Microsoft 365" (ABM), including sensitive data like Teams channel messages. 🤓 #synology #disclosure #modzero modzero.com/en/blog/when...

Got word from MSRC that the product team reevaluated their initial duplicate/not-a-vuln decision and will actually be fixing this validation flaw in EAM 😂

One of the results of the joined research with @dirkjanm.io is entrascopes.com Basically the yellow pages for Microsoft first party apps. #TROOPERS25

Last two weeks I talked about BYO Identity Providers in Entra ID and backdoors to External Auth Methods to bypass MFA. Only possible because MSFT doesn't implement the mandatory OIDC security measures. Slides with optional dark mode on: dirkjanm.io/talks/

Rerunning my test scenarios for the #TROOPERS25 presentation...

Received the news today that my talk "Advanced Active Directory to Entra ID lateral movement techniques" was also accepted for @defcon.bsky.social 🎉 hope to see everyone there!

Since we now can use Entra ID connect sync with a service principal, I thought I'd look into the new security measures. On hosts without a TPM, we can dump the cert+key. On hosts with TPM (second picture) we can use the key to create an auth assertion for roadtx to req tokens.

I'll be returning to #BHUSA @blackhatevents.bsky.social this summer for a brand talk about moving laterally from AD to Entra ID. I don't think I've ever been this excited about a talk, with lots of cool stuff to share 🎢 😄.

Just pushed a new versions for #AADInternals and AADInternals-Endpoint modules! Some bug fixes plus support for: 1️⃣ Microsoft Authentication Library (MSAL) 2️⃣ Token Protection 3️⃣ Continuous Access Evaluation (CAE)

Just found something super useful for my research...... In my own notes from 2023 😅 how I found it back then and why I didn't do anything with it remains a complete mystery.

Two new Entra ID training opportunities in the next few months! I will give another 4-day edition of my public training July 7-10 in The Hague, NL. I will also return to RomHack (Rome, IT) this year for a training Sept 23-27 😀 Info and ticket links: outsidersecurity.nl/training/

Spent the evening deep diving into MCPs and started a new project: roadrecon_mcp_server! This #MCP takes the web GUI output from the awesome ROADtools by @dirkjanm.io and offers tools to Claude (or your #AI agent of choice) to interact with the data: github.com/atomicchonk/...

Automatic browser SSO with a PRT on a victim device over an Outflank C2 implant 🥰 using ROADtools and some hackery from Max Grim.

My @disobeyfi.bsky.social talk is finally out! Link to video and slides available at aadinternals.com/talks And yes, @notmynick.bsky.social used some weird filter, I'm not that fat nor old 😜

Small detour on the way to Insomni'hack! @1ns0mn1h4ck.bsky.social

It appears Microsoft quietly mitigated most of the risk of the "Intune company portal" device compliance CA bypass by restricting the scope of Azure AD graph tokens issued to this app, making them almost useless for most abuse scenarios. Thx @domchell.bsky.social for the heads up.

Normally you can't auth to Entra ID connected webapps with bearer tokens. But if Teams can open SharePoint/OneDrive with an access token, I guess so can we. roadtx now supports opening SharePoint with access tokens in the embedded browser 😀

I don't know who needs to hear this, but there is no such thing as securing BYOD, especially non-mobile OSs You may limit damage your regular users can cause, but you are not keeping out an attacker when you accept a model that allows access from unknown, unmanaged devices

ROADtools update: I just released roadlib v1.0! This version drops the adal dependency, all auth flows are now implemented natively 🎉 This was mostly a personal goal, but it helps with adding new features, such as forcing MFA during device code auth independent of CA policies 😀

I'm still not seeing the mandatory Azure portal MFA we were supposed to get in October / 2nd half 2024 (depending on the source you read). Anyone know the timeline when this will *actually* be rolled out?

Since redirect URLs are tricky, roadtx now includes redirect URLs for many first-party apps and uses them automatically. Demo below shows the interactiveauth module being used for the complaint device CA bypass with the "interactiveauth" module and the "companyportal" client ID alias.

After some time off to recharge outside, now back to work (and research) this week!

In Part 1 of my Intune Attack Paths series, I discuss the fundamental components and mechanics of Intune that lead to the emergence of attack paths: posts.specterops.io/intune-attac...

Today is the last day to submit to #SkiCon2025 Get your submission in if you have anything interesting to share with the community! www.skicon.org/cfp/ Tickets are also on sale : www.skicon.org/tickets/ Please reshare for reach!

👏 Huge thanks to @dirkjanm.io for an exceptional Azure & Entra security training! The nitty-gritty, and real-world examples resonated strongly among our class of 25 security analysts. Thank you! #microsoft #azure #entra #cyber #security #training #cybersecurity

Achievement unlocked, my first blog with SpecterOps 🤗 This post looks at ADFS OAuth2 support, Device Registration, Enterprise PRT, and a brain dump of things that I didn’t want to leave sat on Notion. buff.ly/4j41VQU

Off to a good start in the new year (Part 2). I was awarded the Microsoft MVP status a few days ago for my community contributions in the Microsoft security space. Super grateful for everyone who helped along the way to get me there! ❤️

So you want to exploit ADCS ESC8 with only netexec and ntlmrelayx ? Fear not my friend, I will show you how to do it 👇 NetExec now supports "Pass-the-Cert" as an authentication method, thanks to @dirkjanm.io original work on PKINITtools ⛱️

Few BloodHound python updates: LDAP channel binding is now supported with Kerberos auth (native) or with NTLM (custom ldap3 version). Furthermore, the BH CE collector now has its own pypi package and command. You can have both on the same system with pipx. github.com/dirkjanm/Blo...

Off to a good start in the new year! (Part 1). Thanks @msftsecresponse.bsky.social for the cool swag!

Sorry folks, I had to remove the Disconnected GPO project from GitHub... but never fear, it has returned as Disconnected RSAT since it now supports the Certificate Authority and Certificate Templates snap-ins in addition to Group Policy support. github.com/CCob/DRSAT

Want to run roadrecon, but a device compliance policy is getting in your way? You can use the Intune Company Portal client ID, which is a hardcoded and undocumented exclusion in CA for device compliance. It has user_impersonation rights on the AAD Graph 😃

Awesome work by Lance, clear write-up on the issue, the solution, a PR to ROADtools and more tradecraft!

New #AADInternals version is finally out now: ▪ Moved endpoint related stuff to new module: AADInternals-Endpoints ▪ Added blue team stuff ▪ Added red team stuff See full change log at: aadinternals.com/aadinternals...

New platform, who dis? It me, and @johnnyspandex.bsky.social dropping some VPN client exploit freshness! 🌮🔒 Today, we're releasing NachoVPN, our VPN client exploitation tool, as presented at SANS HackFest Hollywood. Get it on the @amberwolfsec.bsky.social blog: blog.amberwolf.com/blog/2024/no...

I'm glad to release the tool I have been working hard on the last month: #KrbRelayEx A Kerberos relay & forwarder for MiTM attacks! >Relays Kerberos AP-REQ tickets >Manages multiple SMB consoles >Works on Win& Linux with .NET 8.0 >... GitHub: github.com/decoder-it/K...

Awesome new addition to krbrelayx by Hugow from Synacktiv: www.synacktiv.com/publications...

My first public demo of @dirkjanm.io´s #ROADtools went well! Didn't change my hatred towards Python though..

Entra ID authorization codes and refresh tokens now starting with 1. instead of 0. 😮 What sorcery is this!