A detailed walkthrough of a hard-rated Windows Active Directory CTF machine on TryHackMe. The attack chain covers three phases: discovering hardcoded credentials in GitHub commit history (credential archaeology), using those credentials to perform Kerberoasting against a service account, and escalating to SYSTEM via an unquoted service path vulnerability in a ZeroTier service. Also covers SMB anonymous enumeration, PSReadline history exposure, and dead-end paths like DCSync. Ends with defensive mitigations for each technique.

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