Pivot with Ligolo-ng

Since a few weeks I got a new favourite tool to pivot in a network. A few days before my OSCP exam I started discovering Ligolo-ng. I used this tool in every lab so that I would completely understand it before the exam started. Normally I wouldn’t make major changes to methodologies when an important moment is coming up. But in this case I wanted to practice this because I was convinced that it makes pivoting easier. Since a few days I can say that Ligolo-ng is one of my favourite tools to pivot. Of course I believe that it is good to also master other techniques and tools in addition to Ligolo-ng. There are several ways to pivot into a network and I created some mindmaps in Obsidian to make it clear how it works. But this post is not about all techniques for pivotting. I can write a lot about Ligolo-NG, but I think you could better watch a video on YouTube. And this video is awesome.

Video

The video I used to learn about Ligolo-ng was created by Gonsky Cyber. He used an excellent example of a virtual environment to pivot into. You can watch hist video on YouTube. Every single step is explained by him. I can tell you I watched the video twice. The first time just to see what it does and the second time, well I took some notes.

Mindmap

Based on this video I created a mindmap with all commands and where it should be executed. This mindmap was created in Obsidian so I could add it to my cheatsheet. With this new mindmap I started working on several labs for OSCP again. I enjoyed using Ligolo-ng and I decided to keep it in my cheatsheet as knowledge for the exam.

Setup Ligolo-ng in a Windows network The canvas file for Obisdian can be downloaded here