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ShadowGate2 machine card

ShadowGate2 ⛩️ | Hack Smarter Labs

A medium-difficulty Active Directory lab chaining a SQL injection auth bypass, an NTLMv2 capture through a file-upload portal, a WriteOwner and GenericAll ACL chain, a deleted-account recovery, and ESC3 enrollment-agent abuse to enroll as Administrator.

August 2, 2026 · 24 min · 0xB1rd
MartiniAD machine card

MartiniAD 🍸 | Hack Smarter Labs

An easy-difficulty Active Directory lab chaining anonymous SMB access, plaintext credentials left on an open share, Kerberoasting, and password reuse on a tier 0 admin account to dump NTDS and recover the krbtgt hash.

July 23, 2026 · 11 min · 0xB1rd
Arasaka machine card

Arasaka 🗼 | Hack Smarter Labs

An easy-difficulty Active Directory lab chaining Kerberoasting, a GenericAll and GenericWrite ACL chain, and ESC1 certificate abuse against an expired admin to reach a live Domain Administrator and dump NTDS.

July 22, 2026 · 17 min · 0xB1rd