abusing-shadow-credentials-for-privesc
abusing-shadow-credentials-for-privesc is a Penetration testing & red team skill for AI agents, published by mukul975 in the Anthropic-Cybersecurity-Skills repository on GitHub. Skillspace rates abusing-shadow-credentials-for-privesc C (77/100) and it passed the safety scan; a judge model has also reviewed it.
Take over Active Directory accounts by writing attacker-controlled public keys to msDS-KeyCredentialLink (Shadow Credentials) with pyWhisker, Whisker, or Certipy, then authenticate via PKINIT to recover the target's NT hash without a password reset. Use when BloodHound shows GenericWrite/GenericAll/AddKeyCredentialLink over a target, as a stealthier alternative to ForceChangePassword, during authorized red-team engagements.
- Grade
- C
- Quality
- 77 / 100
- Safety
- Passed
- GitHub stars
- 32,716
Placed #1 of 6 in the judged category final for Penetration testing & red team.
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Our review
- Architecture
- 100 / 100
- Maturity
- Packaged: licensed, with a version or references
- Security scan
- Low-risk patterns
- License
- Not declared. Check the repository before reusing it.
Judge review
Placed #1 of 6 in the judged category final for Penetration testing & red team.
- Trigger
92 92 - Instructions
92 92 - Specificity
92 92 - Safety
85 85 - Disclosure
60 60 - Maintenance
75 75
The sharpest trigger in the group (names the exact BloodHound ACEs), paired with a legal notice, an authorization prerequisite, real cited tooling, and explicit cleanup and remediation steps.
What the scanner flagged
- mentions secrets in text
Not checked yet
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- No blind task eval yet
- Scope (portable / vendor / repo-internal) not assessed; only the top of each category is read for scope
- Sibling files (scripts, references) not fetched; security scan covers SKILL.md only
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