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In Pentest Home Lab - 0x0 - Building a virtual corporate domain , we talked about why you would want to build your own AD pentest lab, where you can build it, and the pros and cons of each option. In Pentest Home Lab - 0x1 - Building Your AD Lab on AWS , we walked through setting up a fully functional home lab in AWS. In this third installment, I'm going to walk through setting up a pentest active directory home lab in your basement, closet, etc.  I'll be using Proxmox VE, an open source virtualization environment (aka hypervisor) similar to Vmware ESXi or Citrix XEN. The series so far: Pentest Home Lab - 0x0 - Building A Virtual Corporate Domain  (This post) Pentest Home Lab - 0x1 - Building Your AD Lab on AWS Pentest Home Lab - 0x2 - Building Your AD Lab on Premises using Proxmox VE Pentest Home Lab - 0x3 - Kerberoasting: Creating SPNs so you can roast them Table of Contents What are we going to build? Example server specs Let's talk about networ...

In Pentest Home Lab - 0x0 - Building a virtual corporate domain , we talked about why you would want to build your own AD pentest lab, where you can build it (cloud vs on-premises options), and the pros and cons of each option. This post covers building your lab on AWS. Even if you have a lab at home, setting up a small second home lab on AWS is a worthwhile exercise. You'll learn a lot about AWS in the process. The series so far: Pentest Home Lab - 0x0 - Building A Virtual Corporate Domain  (This post) Pentest Home Lab - 0x1 - Building Your AD Lab on AWS Pentest Home Lab - 0x2 - Building Your AD Lab on Premises using Proxmox VE Pentest Home Lab - 0x3 - Kerberoasting: Creating SPNs so you can roast them Table of Contents What are we going to build? Creating your AWS instances Instance #1: This will be the Domain Controller Instance #2: This will be Workstation01  Disable IE Enhanced Security Configuration Instances #3 & #4 (Optional) Creat...