Anatomy of a Silent Domain Takeover

This Qualys technical report walks through a realistic 54-minute Active Directory takeover (password spray → lateral movement → Kerberoasting → DCSync → Golden Ticket), highlights the benign Windows events used (4625, 4624, 4769, 4662), and demonstrates how AD Real‑Time Monitoring plus continuous posture management can detect, reconstruct and remediate the attack path before it yields Domain Admin access.