https://zacharymorgan.dev/tags/htb-academy/ Recent content in Htb-Academy on Zachary Morgan Hugo en-us Fri, 24 Apr 2026 18:00:00 -0600 https://zacharymorgan.dev/posts/day-2-pentest-process-and-ad-lab/ Fri, 24 Apr 2026 18:00:00 -0600 https://zacharymorgan.dev/posts/day-2-pentest-process-and-ad-lab/ <p>Day 2 of the grind. Two big things happened today: I launched my first Active Directory environment from scratch, and I worked through the Penetration Testing Process module on HTB Academy</p> <h2 id="the-ad-lab">The AD lab</h2> <p>Spun up a Windows Server 2025 VM on my Proxmox host and turned it into a domain controller for <code>corp.local</code>.</p> <h3 id="promoting-to-a-dc">Promoting to a DC</h3> <p>After the install I set a static IP and had Claude help me with the rest of the setup:</p>