Pentest

Setting up Game of Active Directory (GOAD-Light) on Windows 11 with VMware Workstation and Vagrant — and the real story behind it: troubleshooting the VMware utility, the launcher’s provider bug, a missing plugin, host-only networking, and provisioning failures that stood between me and a working AD lab.

Quick-reference commands for recon, enumeration, exploitation, and post-exploit work on Linux and Windows targets.

Step-by-step notes from a homelab penetration test: discovery, enumeration, Kerberos user discovery, brute force, and admin shell with Evil-WinRM. Includes commands used and outputs captured during the exercise.