Active Directory Pentesting Full Course - Red Team Hacking (Udemy.com)
Attacking and Hacking Active Directory
Created by: Security Gurus
Last updated December 2021
What you will learn
- Red Team Active Directory Hacking
- How to Find Vulnerabilities in Active Directoy
- How To Exploit Active Directory
- Domain Privilege Escalation
- PowerView PowerShell Module
- Active Directory Enumeration
- Active Directory Post Exploitation
- Active Directory Pre Exploitation
- Local Privilege Escalation
- Domain Persistence and Dominance
How it compares
Against the other 112 rated Udemy courses in Windows Server on CourseDuck:
- Rating4.1 out of 5higher than 7% of them
- Reviews650#59 of 113 by number of reviews
- Length9.7 hourslonger than 66% of them
- Last updatedDecember 2021earlier than 52% of them
Course Description
Most enterprise networks today are managed using Windows Active Directory and it is imperative for a security professional to understand the threats to the Windows infrastructure.
Active Directory Pretesting is designed to provide security professionals to understand, analyze and practice threats and attacks in a modern Active Directory environment. The course is beginner friendly and comes with a walkthrough videos course and all documents with all the commands executed in the videos. The course is based on our years of experience of breaking Windows and AD environments and research.
When it comes to AD security, there is a large gap of knowledge which security professionals and administrators struggle to fill. Over the years, I have taken numerous world trainings on AD security and always found that there is a lack of quality material and specially, a lack of good walkthrough and explanation.
The course simulate real world attack and defense scenarios and we start with a non-admin user account in the domain and we work our way up to enterprise admin. The focus is on exploiting the variety of overlooked domain features and not just software vulnerabilities.
We cover topics like AD enumeration, tools to use, domain privilege escalation, domain persistence, Kerberos based attacks (Golden ticket, Silver ticket and more), ACL issues, SQL server trusts, and bypasses of defenses.
Instructor Details
- 4.1 Rating
650 Reviews
Security Gurus
I started my journey with the CCNA R&S. After earling about VPNs, I became interested in security and pass the CCNA Security. I started digging more in firewalls and fell in love with Palo Alto Networks Firewall. I like to encrypt packets. BTC. CCNA Routing and CCNP SEC, CCNA SEC tips, labs videos and more! CCNA R&S and CCNA Security Certified and working on my CCNP Security SIMOS
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Reviews
By Marcel Bilal on 1/12/2026
A very good course, well suited for preparing for the OSCP and OSEP. It’s very pleasant to listen to and follows a clear, structured approach.
By leendert van Buuren on 6/5/2024
At first I had quite some trouble to follow the instructor, as time passed I started to develop respect. The shared information shows the skills, Thanks for creating this video!
By P.Juhanak on 11/24/2023
You will get nice content and explanation to hacking Active Directory from Windows station using Powersploit modules PowerView and Mimikatz. The author goes methodologically from the beginning till the end. Sometimes author does not speak clearly (mumbles) but you can turn on subtitles to capture it. The english is on good level without specific accent. I've enjoyed the course. The trainer does not affraid to show when something does not work on a first attempt which will help you to understand typical failures. Thank you!
By Enrique on 2/7/2023
Great content and real world examples of enumeration. Super excited and looking forward on completing this course since i feel, it will give me great knowledge.
By Garth Hurcombe-Pitman on 6/13/2022
The delivery is hard to follow. I think he gets side tracked a bit. I know this is a course for beginners but I have found myself skipping large segments because of the explanations of things that really don't need explaining. I really think this course could be condensed by at least a couple of hours. I want to give this course 5 stars, there is a lot of good information here but I am trying my hardest to stay awake.
By Lloyd Wright on 5/3/2022
The course contains some really good information, it may be of extra value for those who are sitting the OSCP now its focused to Active directory. I picked up a few new commands and one tool that I personally have never seen or used so that's always good. My main contention with the course is that the instructor seems very knowledgeable but struggles to communicate the subjects he is discussing, there many instances where it just seems like they have recorded without the use of script to ensure fluid demonstrations as well as struggling to even pronounce some of tool names correctly (such as MSF-Venom) and this could lead newer folks to been confused as to exact tool in use. My final conclusion is that this course is worth a look and contains excellent information, just be prepared for some minor issues that are due to the lack of a script been used. your a really knowledgeable guy and its such a shame that the course is let down by you not using a script to ensure that the lessons are delivered fluidly, I think you could be a top level content creator if you just iron out your speaking a little, and plan the flow of the lessons rather than recording on the spot and not been prepared for issues that arise.
By Omer Dahan on 9/7/2021
hello i want to say you do that course very good and very simple, but i have one thing to say, you need to open videos with lab setup, i set up AD-Vuln lab with DC2012, but i very happy if you do lab setup. Thank Very much
By Shailendra Kumar sharma on 6/24/2021
Instructer is having really good knowledge about the topic but lacking the ability to explain what is going on there and why. There is no information or help for creating virtual lab to perform all the activities.
By A A on 4/20/2021
good content, if you can give or make a video of billding and configoring the AD and DC for the classes its will be helpfull becuse its hard to jost wach the videos and memoris them.
By Learned User on 4/2/2021
Instructor seems to have some knowledge of the topic but lacks the ability to explain details of what is being performed. Its more of a watch me do stuff course with very little explanation of why. Its also hard to follow along as the instructor gives no help in creating a virtual lab to follow a long with.
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Overall Score : 82 / 100








