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Ranges

Cyber range environments built for purple team exercises. Each range has its own topology, hardening baseline, and detection stack. Scenarios live inside each range page.

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Pivot
A fully-patched WS2025 forest built for lateral movement, privilege escalation, and credential-chain abuse.

What it is

Multi-segment Blackwood & Associates law firm forest with Elastic Defend + Suricata + Zeek watching. Attack surface designed to exercise every tier of credential and ACL abuse without hand-planted weaknesses.

Scope

Red team runs the full kill chain against the hardened baseline. Blue team gets per-phase telemetry, Sigma rules, and documented blind spots.

Covers

  • Kerberoasting, AS-REP, S4U2Self abuse
  • DPAPI vault + credential-store theft
  • LAPS v2 + gMSA readpwd
  • ADWS enumeration (SOAPy) blind spot
  • Cross-tier pivoting via ligolo
  • Golden Certificate + AdminSDHolder persistence
Hybrid IdentityElastic Defend
Range detailsScenarios
Live
ADCS
Dedicated ADCS attack surface on patched WS2025. All 16 ESCs seeded, chainable, and testable against current KB5014754 enforcement.

What it is

Isolated Active Directory Certificate Services environment with vulnerable templates pre-seeded. The only reproducible WS2025 lab with every ESC primitive attackable end-to-end under current patch level.

Scope

Research surface for the ADCS attack family (ESC, THEFT, PERSIST, DPERSIST, CBA extensions). Companion to the ongoing WS2025-state publishing push.

Covers

  • ESC1 through ESC16 vulnerable templates
  • THEFT1-5 credential + key theft
  • PERSIST1-3 and DPERSIST1-3 primitives
  • Code Signing, EFS, Shadow Credentials
  • CBA extensions: SSH, VPN, Azure, Entra
  • Full paChecksum2 + Full Enforcement edge cases
On-PremElastic Defend
Range detailsScenarios
Live
Intra-Forest
Six-domain WS2025 forest built for inter-realm Kerberos abuse. Thin tier-0 root, two trees, grandchildren, every DC behind a Kerberos-only firewall policy to the forest root.

What it is

purpleranges.pro at the top (Enterprise Admins only), corp + dev trees under it, each tree with its own regional children. Every DC is WS2025 Core on hardened baseline. Pattern-2 tier-0 segmentation forces attackers off NTLM/direct-RPC paths to the root and onto trust-account chains + Kerberos-authenticated DRSUAPI.

Scope

Red team climbs the parent-child trust chain hop by hop to the forest root using trust-key-signed inter-realm TGTs and DC$ impersonation. Blue team gets per-phase telemetry across six domains + Sigma rules for cross-realm referral patterns.

Covers

  • Inter-realm Kerberos referral forgery
  • Trust-account chaining (labs$ → dev$ → root$)
  • Sapphire ticket + ExtraSids SID-516 injection
  • DCSync via Kerberos-authenticated DRSUAPI-over-SMB
  • Cross-tree pivoting (root → corp → us.corp)
  • Tier-0 isolation + Kerberos-only firewall policy
On-PremElastic Defend
Range detailsScenarios
Coming soon
Cross-Forest
Two separate forests connected by a one-way or two-way trust. Target surface for forest-to-forest escalation.

What it is

Two independent forests with distinct krbtgt + enterprise admin boundaries, joined by an explicit trust. Blueprint for trust-ticket forging + inter-forest ACL abuse.

Scope

Not yet deployed. Blueprint drafted, scenario catalog pending.

Covers

  • Forest trust ticket forging
  • Inter-forest Kerberos abuse
  • ADWS cross-trust enumeration
  • Trust key extraction + abuse
  • SID filtering bypass paths
  • Partner-forest cert-based auth pivots
On-Prem