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When an Active Directory domain or forest trust is set up from a domain _B_ to a domain _A_ (_**B**_ trusts A), a trust account is created in domain **A**, named **B. Kerberos trust keys**,\_derived from the **trust account’s password**, are used for **encrypting inter-realm TGTs**, when users of domain A request service tickets for services in domain B.
The risk is because of trust account B$ is enabled, **B$’s Primary Group is Domain Users of domain A**, any permission granted to Domain Users applies to B$, and it is possible to use B$’s credentials to authenticate against domain A.
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Therefore, f**rom the trusting domain it's possible to obtain a user inside the trusted domain**. This user won't have a lot of permissions (just Domain Users probably) but you will be able to **enumerate the external domain**.
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In this example the trusting domain is `ext.local` and the trusted one is `root.local`. Therefore, a user called `EXT$` is created inside `root.local`.
```bash
# Use mimikatz to dump trusted keys
lsadump::trust /patch
# You can see in the output the old and current credentials
# You will find clear text, AES and RC4 hashes
```
Therefore, at this point have **`root.local\EXT$`**’s current **cleartext password and Kerberos secret key.** The **`root.local\EXT$`** Kerberos AES secret keys are on identical to the AES trust keys as a different salt is used, but the **RC4 keys are the same**. Therefore, we can **use the RC4 trust key** dumped from ext.local as to **authenticate** as `root.local\EXT$` against `root.local`.
Sometimes when creating a trust relationship, a password must be typed in by the user for the trust. In this demonstration, the key is the original trust password and therefore human readable. As the key cycles (30 days), the cleartext will not be human-readable but technically still usable.
The cleartext password can be used to perform regular authentication as the trust account, an alternative to requesting a TGT using the Kerberos secret key of the trust account. Here, querying root.local from ext.local for members of Domain Admins:
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