SecurityCipher
Home Blog About Us
Resources ▼
✅ Security Checklists Hub 🗺️ Penetration Testing Roadmap 🤖 OWASP Top 10 for LLM Applications 🧠 LLM AI Security Checklist 🛠️ Security Tools 🎯 Penetration Testing Tricks 📄 Secure Code Explain 📖 Vulnerability Explain ☁️ AWS Cloud Security Checklist
My Resume
Our ServicesServices
New On-Call Drive Drive the neon city, jack in, and clear security tickets Play now →
← Security Tools View on GitHub

bloodyAD

Active Directory privilege escalation Swiss army knife.

⚠️ autobloody has been moved to its own repo

bloodyAD logo bloodyAD

bloodyAD is an Active Directory privilege escalation swiss army knife

Description

This tool can perform specific LDAP calls to a domain controller in order to perform AD privesc.

bloodyAD supports authentication using cleartext passwords, pass-the-hash, pass-the-ticket or certificates and binds to LDAP services of a domain controller to perform AD privesc.

Exchange of sensitive information without LDAPS is supported.

It is also designed to be used transparently with a SOCKS proxy.

Simple usage:

bloodyAD --host 172.16.1.15 -d bloody.local -u jane.doe -p :70016778cb0524c799ac25b439bd6a31 set password john.doe 'Password123!'

See the wiki for more.

Support

Like this project? Donations are greatly appreciated ☺️

Need personalized support? send us an email or check our website cravaterouge.com to see all our cybersecurity services.

Acknowledgements

  • Thanks to @skelsec for his amazing libraries especially MSLDAP which is now the engine on which bloodyAD is running.
  • Thanks to impacket contributors. Structures and several LDAP attacks are based on their work.
  • Thanks to @PowerShellMafia team (PowerView.ps1) and their work on AD which inspired this tool.
  • Thanks to @dirkjanm (adidnsdump.py) and (@Kevin-Robertson)(Invoke-DNSUpdate.ps1) for their work on AD DNS which inspired DNS functionnalities.
  • Thanks to @p0dalirius and his pydsinternals module which helped to build the shadow credential attack
Press Escape to close the search panel.

Donate

Buy me a Coffee

Penetration Testing Services - Fiverr

Buy me a Coffee

Penetration Testing Services

penetration Testing Services

Web Application Security Quiz

Web Application Security Quiz

Daily Bug Bounty Writeups - Twitter

Daily Bug Bounty Writeups

Download our Latest Android Application

Guide for Penetration Testing

Daily Bug Bounty Writeups - Telegram

Daily Bug Bounty Writeups

Author

Piyush
Senior Product Security Engineer

Ethical Hacker || Penetration Tester || Gamer || Blogger || Application Security Engineer

READ ARTICLE

Donate

Buy me a Coffee

Recent Posts

  • Cloud Misconfig Bounty Hunting in 2026: Open Buckets, Firebase, and Secrets
    Cloud Misconfig Bounty Hunting in 2026: Open Buckets, Firebase, and Secrets
    September 8, 2026/
    0 Comments
  • DevSecOps From Laptop to Production: A Practical Security Pipeline Guide
    DevSecOps From Laptop to Production: A Practical Security Pipeline Guide
    August 27, 2026/
    0 Comments
  • The CVE Flood Is a Lie: How to Hunt When AI Dumps 36% More Bugs But Exploitation Only Grows 10%
    The CVE Flood Is a Lie: How to Hunt When AI Dumps 36% More Bugs But Exploitation Only Grows 10%
    August 25, 2026/
    0 Comments

Follow Us

SecurityCipher

Practical security guides, vulnerability deep-dives, and hands-on resources for bug bounty hunters and penetration testers.

Useful Links

  • Security Checklists
  • Cybersecurity Jobs
  • Blogs
  • About
  • Contact
© 2026 SecurityCipher. All rights reserved. Privacy Policies · Terms & Conditions