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NetExec

Network service exploitation tool (the CrackMapExec successor) for pentesting Windows/Active Directory.

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🚩 This is the open source repository of NetExec maintained by a community of passionate people

NetExec - The Network Execution Tool

This project was initially created in 2015 by @byt3bl33d3r, known as CrackMapExec. In 2019 @mpgn_x64 started maintaining the project for the next 4 years, adding a lot of great tools and features. In September 2023 he retired from maintaining the project.

Along with many other contributors, we (NeffIsBack, Marshall-Hallenbeck, and zblurx) developed new features, bug fixes, and helped maintain the original project CrackMapExec. During this time, with both a private and public repository, community contributions were not easily merged into the project. The 6-8 month discrepancy between the code bases caused many development issues and heavily reduced community-driven development. With the end of mpgn's maintainer role, we (the remaining most active contributors) decided to maintain the project together as a fully free and open source project under the new name NetExec πŸš€ Going forward, our intent is to maintain a community-driven and maintained project with regular updates for everyone to use.

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NetExec

Documentation, Tutorials, Examples

See the project's wiki (in development) for documentation and usage examples

Installation

Please see the installation instructions on the wiki (in development)

Linux

sudo apt install pipx git
pipx ensurepath
pipx install git+https://github.com/Pennyw0rth/NetExec

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