Nessus Setup and Plugin Reprocessing
Linux commands for registering a Nessus scanner, managing local users, forcing plugin reprocessing, and checking the service.
FIELD NOTES / QUICK REFERENCE
Commands and fixes.
Commands I reuse, errors I have already worked through, and short references for the details that are easy to forget.
MANSPIDER Authenticated Search Wrapper
An interactive Bash wrapper that verifies SMB credentials, filters the target scope, and runs focused MANSPIDER searches with private log handling.
Parsing NetExec NTDS and NetNTLM Output
What the colon-delimited fields in NTDS and NetNTLM files represent, and how to extract usernames or cracking input without mixing the formats.
Certipy Request and Authentication Failure Triage
A symptom-first reference for separating Certipy syntax problems, CA policy decisions, PKINIT failures, certificate mapping failures, and relay-stage faults.
Impacket dacledit Target Selection
How to select users, groups, OUs, containers, and GPO objects with dacledit.py without confusing a display name, sAMAccountName, SID, or distinguished name.
SSH Forwarding Patterns
Quick SSH forms for a direct jump-host tunnel, a two-hop Kali route, remote Nessus and RDP services, and file transfer through ProxyJump.
Web Recon Pipeline
An httpx, Katana, and Nuclei workflow that keeps live URLs, crawl output, and reviewed scanner passes separate.
Nmap Output to Target Lists
Small Nmap and awk patterns for finding open services and turning greppable output into deduplicated target files.