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GOAD: Overview

Created by: Dcyberguy 
Created time: October 31, 2025 7:23 PM
Last edited by: Dcyberguy 
Last updated time: October 31, 2025 9:33 PM
Status: Done

Description

GOAD is a pentest active directory LAB project. The purpose of this lab is to give pentesters a vulnerable Active directory environment ready to use to practice usual attack techniques.

Warning This lab is extremely vulnerable, do not reuse recipe to build your environment and do not deploy this environment on internet without isolation (this is a recommendation, use it as your own risk).

This repository was build for pentest practice.

Licenses

This lab use free windows VM only (180 days). After that delay enter a license on each server or rebuild all the lab (may be it's time for an update ;))

Available labs

GOAD: 5 vms, 2 forests, 3 domains (full goad lab

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GOAD-Light: 3 vms, 1 forest, 2 domains (smaller goad lab for those with a smaller pc)

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MiniLAB: 2 vms, 1 forest, 1 domain (basic lab with one DC (windows server 2019) and one Workstation (windows 10))

• SCCM : 4 vms, 1 forest, 1 domain, with Microsoft configuration manager installed

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• NHA : A challenge with 5 vms and 2 domains. no schema provided, you will have to find out how break it.