The Active Directory Kill Chain: Is Your Company at Risk?

Published

2015-09-08 00:00

Collected

2026-07-08 08:46

---
id: 4268
title: "The Active Directory Kill Chain: Is Your Company at Risk?"
source_domain: bishopfox.com
source_url: "https://bishopfox.com/blog/active-directory-kill-chain"
published_at: "2015-09-08T00:00:00Z"
tags: ["active-directory", "privilege-escalation", "windows", "penetration-testing", "ms14-025", "group-policy"]
phying_url: "https://phying.com/item/4268"
lang: en
---

# The Active Directory Kill Chain: Is Your Company at Risk?

## Summary

A step-by-step Active Directory kill chain via MS14-025: Group Policy Preferences distributing local admin passwords let an attacker escalate from a foothold to full domain control.

## Intelligence Metadata

- **Sources:** bishopfox.com
- **Published:** 2015-09-08T00:00:00Z
- **Original:** https://bishopfox.com/blog/active-directory-kill-chain
- **Phying News:** https://phying.com/item/4268