Odyssey - Part 7 - (Hack Smarter Labs!)
Source: YouTube · Tyler Ramsbey - Hack Smarter · published May 28, 2026 · 15:38
This video continues the Hack Smarter Odyssey lab by resolving BloodHound compatibility issues with Server 2025 to successfully collect Active Directory data for attack path mapping.
Key Takeaways:
• The presenter resumes Part 7 of the Odyssey lab, picking up from Part 6 0:00
• NetExec and Python BloodHound failed due to lack of Server 2025 support 0:28
• BloodHound AD successfully collected the necessary loot data for analysis 0:36
• A pending pull request aims to fix the compatibility issues for other tools 0:32
• The presenter installs BloodHound CLI to ingest data and map attack paths 3:15
The segment emphasizes the critical need for compatible tools when targeting newer server versions and demonstrates using BloodHound to identify Group Policy abuse for privilege escalation.
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Hello. Welcome back. This is part seven of working through the Odyssey machine on the Hack Smarter platform, a multi-machine Active Directory lab. Let's just go ahead and dive in, pick up right where we left off at the end of part six. And if you remember, at the end of part six, after me complaining and crying and whining about the bloody AD syntax, we got it to work. It actually worked. We were able to use BloodHound AD to get the BloodHound loot, even though NetExec failed and Python BloodHound fails. And the reason it fails, according to Pebble, is anything that's Server 2025, it does not work. He opened a PR to fix it, but they haven't merged it yet. But in the meantime, BloodHound AD works beautifully to dump the loot that we need. Now, what we are going to do, let me just make sure …