🛠️Trusts

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Theory

Practice

Enumeration

From UNIX-like systems, tools like NetExec (Python) and ldapsearch (C) can be used to enumerate trusts.

# ldapsearch
ldapsearch -h ldap://$DC_IP -b "CN=SYSTEM,DC=$DOMAIN" "(objectclass=trustedDomain)"

# NetExec
nxc ldap <DC_IP> -u <USER>-p <PASSWORD> -M enum_trusts

From Windows systems tools like PowerView (PowerShell) and netdom may be used to enumerate trusts :

netdom

From domain-joined hosts, the netdom cmdlet can be used.

netdom trust /domain:DOMAIN.LOCAL

PowerView

Alternatively, PowerSploit's PowerView (PowerShell) supports multiple commands for various purposes.

# Enumerate domain trust relationships of the current user's domain
Get-NetDomainTrust
Get-NetDomainTrust –Domain [Domain Name]
Get-NetDomainTrust -SearchBase "GC://$($ENV:USERDNSDOMAIN)"

# Enumerate forest trusts from the current domain's perspective
Get-NetForestTrust
Get-NetForestDomain -Forest [Forest Name]

# Enumerate all the trusts of all the domains found
Get-NetForestDomain | Get-NetDomainTrust

# Enumerate and map all domain trusts
Invoke-MapDomainTrust

#Get users with privileges in other domains inside the forest
Get-DomainForeingUser

#Get groups with privileges in other domains inside the forest
Get-DomainForeignGroupMember

The global catalog is a partial copy of all objects in an Active Directory forest, meaning that some object properties (but not all) are contained within it. This data is replicated among all domain controllers marked as global catalogs for the forest. Trusted domain objects are replicated in the global catalog, so we can enumerate every single internal and external trust that all domains in our current forest have extremely quickly, and only with traffic to our current PDC.
(by Will Schroeder on blog.harmj0y.net)

BloodHound

BloodHound can also be used to map the trusts. While it doesn't provide much details, it shows a visual representation.

Forging Tickets

Resources

Trust Technologies: Domain and Forest Trustsdocsmsft

TrustsThe Hacker Recipes

SID filter as security boundary between domains? (Part 7) - Trust account attack - from trusting to trusted — Improsec | improving securityImprosec | improving security

Domain Trust Discovery, Technique T1482 - Enterprise | MITRE ATT&CK®

Attack TrustsPentester's Promiscuous Notebook

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