Adaz | Automatically Deploy Customizable Active Directory Labs In Azure

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This project allows you to easily spin up Active Directory labs in Azure with domain-joined workstations, Windows Event Forwarding, Kibana, and Sysmon using Terraform/Ansible.

It exposes a high-level configuration file for your domain to allow you to customize users, groups and workstations.

dns_name: hunter.labdc_name: DC-1initial_domain_admin: username: hunter password: MyAdDomain!organizational_units: {}users:- username: christophe- username: danygroups:- dn: CN=Hunters,CN=Users members: [christophe]default_local_admin: username: localadmin password: Localadmin!workstations:- name: XTOF-WKS local_admins: [christophe]- name: DANY-WKS local_admins: [dany]enable_windows_firewall: yes

Features

  • Windows Event Forwarding pre-configured
  • Audit policies pre-configured
  • Sysmon installed
  • Logs centralized in an Elasticsearch instance which can easily be queried from the Kibana UI
  • Domain easily configurable via YAML configuration file

Here’s an incomplete and biaised comparison with DetectionLab:

Adaz DetectionLab
Public cloud support Azure AWS, Azure (beta)
Expected time to spin up a lab 15-20 minutes 25 minutes
Log management & querying Elasticsearch+Kibana Splunk Enterprise
WEF
Audit policies
Sysmon
YAML domain configuration file
Multiple Windows 10 workstations support
VirtualBox/VMWare support
osquery / fleet

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Use-cases

  • Detection engineering: Having access to clean lab with a standard is a great way to understand what traces common attacks and lateral movement techniques leave behind.
  • Learning Active Directory: I often have the need to test GPOs or various AD features (AppLocker, LAPS…). Having a disposable lab is a must for this.

Screenshots

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Getting started

Prerequisites

  • An Azure subscription. You can create one for free and you get $200 of credits for the first 30 days. Note that this type of subscription has a limit of 4 vCPUs per region, which still allows you to run 1 domain controller and 2 workstations (with the default lab configuration).
  • A SSH key in ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub
  • Terraform >= 0.12
  • Azure CLI
  • You must be logged in to your Azure account by running az login. Yu can use az account list to confirm you have access to your Azure subscription

Installation

  • Clone this repository
git clone https://github.com/christophetd/Adaz.git
  • Create a virtual env and install Ansible dependencies
# Note: the virtual env needs to be in ansible/venvpython3 -m venv ansible/venv source ansible/venv/bin/activatepip install -r ansible/requirements.txtdeactivate
  • Initialize Terraform
cd terraformterraform init

Usage

Optionally edit domain.yml according to your needs (reference here), then run:

terraform apply

Resource creation and provisioning takes 15-20 minutes. Once finished, you will have an output similar to:

dc_public_ip = 13.89.191.140kibana_url = http://52.176.3.250:5601what_next =#######################  WHAT NEXT?  #######################Check out your logs in Kibana:http://52.176.3.250:5601RDP to your domain controller:xfreerdp /v:13.89.191.140 /u:hunter.lab\hunter '/p:Hunt3r123.' +clipboard /cert-ignoreRDP to a workstation:xfreerdp /v:52.176.5.229 /u:localadmin '/p:Localadmin!' +clipboard /cert-ignoreworkstations_public_ips = {  "DANY-WKS" = "52.165.182.15"  "XTOF-WKS" = "52.176.5.229"}

Don’t worry if during the provisioning you see a few messages looking like FAILED - RETRYING: List Kibana index templates (xx retries left)

By default, resources are deployed in the West Europe region under a resource group ad-hunting-lab. You can control the region with a Terraform variable:

terraform apply -var 'region=East US 2'

Documentation

Roadmap

I will heavily rely on the number of thumbs up votes you will leave on feature-proposal issues for the next features!

Suggestions and bugs

Feel free to open an issue or to tweet @christophetd.

GitHub:

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