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Certipy

Enumerates and abuses AD CS certificate templates (ESC1-ESC16).

The reference tool for Active Directory Certificate Services (AD CS). It finds misconfigured certificate templates (ESC1 to ESC16), requests certificates abusing them and authenticates with the resulting .pfx to obtain the victim's NT hash or a TGT, often Administrator itself.

Family AD abuse (ACL, ADCS, coercion)

Flags find auth req shadow

Concepts ADCS ESC9 (No Security Extension), GenericAll, GenericWrite

Cheatsheet AD CS (certificates)

Installation

pipx install certipy-ad

Useful commands4 commands

Appears in

Some machines where its use is documented; not an exhaustive list.