# Kevin-Robertson/Powermad

PowerShell MachineAccountQuota and DNS exploit tools

Repository: https://github.com/Kevin-Robertson/Powermad
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/powermad
Language: PowerShell
License: BSD-3-Clause
License Family: permissive
Last push: 2023-01-11T00:48:35+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 32/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3284, "days_push": 1331, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1500, forks 190 (observed 2026-08-28T04:04:54.192972+00:00)

## What it is
Powermad is a set of PowerShell functions for exploiting Active Directory's default MachineAccountQuota and Active Directory-Integrated DNS (ADIDNS) settings. It enables adding machine accounts via raw LDAP requests and manipulating DNS records without joining a system to the domain.

## Use cases
- add a machine account to active directory without joining a domain
- exploit default machine account quota in a pentest
- poison active directory integrated dns records
- enumerate machine accounts created by unprivileged users
- perform adidns wildcard record attacks
- red team active directory enumeration and abuse

## When to choose
- you are doing authorized Active Directory penetration testing or red teaming
- you need to abuse ms-DS-MachineAccountQuota or ADIDNS from Windows with PowerShell
- you want to test whether domain users can create machine accounts or modify DNS records

## When to avoid
- you need defensive monitoring rather than offensive tooling
- your target is not an Active Directory environment
- you require a maintained tool with frequent updates - the latest release is from early 2023

## Facets
- artifact type: cli-tool
- maturity: maintenance
- function: security, penetration-testing, networking
- domain: security, penetration-testing, windows
- platform: windows, cli
- tags: active-directory, powershell, red-team, dns, machine-account-quota, adidns, ldap

## Member repositories
- Kevin-Robertson/Powermad (main) score 32

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:54.192972+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T04:32:58.543172+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/Kevin-Robertson/Powermad (fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:54.192972+00:00, sha eaea9c3ebac7)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.