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This blog is intended to be an introduction to payload generation and environmental factors to consider when crafting payloads during a penetration test, or red team engagement. Although seemingly elementary, these concepts carry over into multiple tools commonly used and stress the importance of situational awareness.

A few weeks ago I ran into an older version of the Cacti network graphing solution, which led me down the path of researching the application. This revealed some interesting vulnerabilities, discussed in this post, that I have disclosed on the Cacti issues page.

There are several situations in penetration testing when all you have is your Linux machine against a Windows Active Directory environment. In that situation, it is helpful to know the various ways to interact with AD through the Linux 'net' commands.