BloodHound 1.4: The Object Properties Update

If you’ve been following the development of BloodHound, you’ll notice that the team has been very active lately. The culmination of all this recent work is the release of BloodHound 1.4. While the changes made may seem minor, we’ve decided that it deserves being tagged with a new release number, as it fixes quite a few issues and introduces some new features which should lead to far more interesting queries and analytics down the line....

October 7, 2017 · 11 min · 2158 words · Rohan Vazarkar

SharpHound: Evolution of the BloodHound Ingestor

Over the past few months, the BloodHound team has been working on a complete rewrite of the C# ingestor. One of the biggest problems end users encountered was with the current (soon to be replaced) PowerShell ingestor, particularly in speed of enumeration as well as crippling memory usage. In moderately sized environments, the ingestor would happily eat up gigabytes of memory. There’s lots of reasons for this, almost all to do with the limitations of using PowerShell V2 as the base language....

September 19, 2017 · 12 min · 2390 words · Rohan Vazarkar

Intro To Cypher

One of the most overlooked features of BloodHound is the ability to enter raw Cypher queries directly into the user interface. Likely, a lot of that has to do with the fact that it’s not a very emphasized feature, not to mention it requires learning Cypher. However, with a bit of work, using raw Cypher queries can let you manipulate and examine BloodHound data in custom ways that will help you further understand your network or identify interesting relationships....

February 19, 2017 · 13 min · 2570 words · Rohan Vazarkar

MS14-068

On a past assessment, we found a Domain Controller that was vulnerable to the infamous MS14-068 exploit. While trying to get the exploit working properly, we ran into some random issues that we had to work through. I wanted to document the process we used for successful exploitation, as well as the fixes we developed along the way. I don’t intend to go in depth on exactly how MS14-068 works. If you want a detailed explanation, you can find a fantastic one here....

March 30, 2015 · 7 min · 1321 words · Rohan Vazarkar