Bloodhound

Bloodhound is a GUI tool that works together with the enumeration tool Sharphound. Generally, Sharphound will be executed to enumerate through the AD environment to collect information, before being passed to Bloodhound to be displayed visually. Essentially, Sharphound can be viewed as the data collector for Bloodhound.

Note: the Bloodhound and Sharphound versions should match for the best results.

There are different types of data collectors for Bloodhound:

1. SharpHound: as a Powershell script (.ps1) or a Windows executable version (.exe )

The official data collector for BloodHound Community Edition (CE), written in C# and uses native Windows API and LDAP namespace functions to collect data from domain controllers and domain-joined Windows systems.

1. AzureHound: as a Powershell script (.ps1 ) or pre-compiled binary

AzureHound Community Edition collects data from Entra ID (formerly known as AzureAD) and AzureRM via the Microsoft Graph and Azure REST APIs. It does not use any external dependencies and will run on any operating system.

SharpHound Community Edition - SpecterOpsSpecterOps

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Steps to install Bloodhound on Kali Linux

1. Install Docker

Install Docker EngineDocker Documentation

a. Uninstall old versions (optional)

$ for pkg in docker.io docker-doc docker-compose podman-docker containerd runc; do sudo apt-get remove $pkg; done

b. Setup Docker apt repository

# Add Docker's official GPG key:
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install ca-certificates curl
$ sudo install -m 0755 -d /etc/apt/keyrings
$ sudo curl -fsSL https://download.docker.com/linux/debian/gpg -o /etc/apt/keyrings/docker.asc
$ sudo chmod a+r /etc/apt/keyrings/docker.asc

# Add the repository to Apt sources:
$ version_codename="bullseye"
$ echo \
  "deb [arch=$(dpkg --print-architecture) signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/docker.asc] https://download.docker.com/linux/debian \
  "$version_codename" stable" | \
  sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/docker.list > /dev/null

$ sudo apt-get update

The value for version_codename should be replaced with your particular Debian code name such as Bookworm , Bullseye , etc.

c. Install packages

$ sudo apt-get install docker-ce docker-ce-cli containerd.io docker-buildx-plugin docker-compose-plugin

d. Start the relevant Docker daemon/systemd unit

$ sudo systemctl start docker
$ sudo systemctl start docker.socket

2. Install Bloodhound CE

Release BloodHound CLI v0.1.8 · SpecterOps/bloodhound-cliGitHub

# remember to replace the filename based on your architecture (relese page link above)
$ wget https://github.com/SpecterOps/bloodhound-cli/releases/latest/download/bloodhound-cli-linux-amd64.tar.gz

$ tar -xvzf bloodhound-cli-linux-amd64.tar.gz # replace apprioprately too

$ ./bloodhound-cli install # use with sudo if this command fails

How start BloodHound manually

To save system resources, we can disable the docker and docker.socket processes to prevent it from automatically running on system boot.

$ sudo systemctl disable docker
$ sudo systemctl disable docker.socket

# to stop the bloodhound instance
$ ./bloodhound-cli down

Manually start BloodHound

$ sudo systemctl start docker
$ sudo systemctl start docker.socket

# navigate to the directory where the bloodhound-cli binary is stored
$ ./bloodhound-cli up

After starting BloodHound, we can navigate to the default web interface: http://127.0.0.1:8080/ui/explore.