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Enumerate Forest Trusts


Cross-Forest Enumeration

Users in Foreign Domain

Foreign Group Membership

BloodHound

Collect data from both forests. Analyze cross-forest edges.

SID Filtering Bypass (Limited)

Across a forest trust, SID filtering strips every SID with a RID below 1000 (500, 512, 513, 518, 519, 520, …), regardless of SID history.

What Still Works

SIDs not filtered across forests:
  • Custom group/user SIDs with RID ≥ 1000 from the trusted forest
  • Note: Domain Users (RID 513) is below 1000 and is filtered, despite being a default group

Check Filtering Status


Trust Account Attack

Get Foreign Trust Account

Forge Trust Ticket

Limited to non-filtered SIDs.

Shared Resources Abuse

If foreign forest resources are accessible:

ADCS Cross-Forest

If ADCS in target forest trusts your domain:

PAM Trust (Bastion Forest)

Privileged Access Management trust allows shadow principals in bastion forest to map to principals in production forest.

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