sharphound
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SharpHound is a data collector for BloodHound CE that enumerates Active DirectoryActive DirectoryMicrosoft's directory service for Windows networks that centralises authentication and authorisation; cyber tools target or integrate with it because it controls identity and access across most enterprise environments. environments to gather relationship and permission data.
SharpHound.exe -c Default,Site -d corp.local --outputdirectory C:\Temp\ MATCH (n:User) WHERE n.name = '<upn>' UNWIND n.eligibleRoles AS r WITH n, head(r) AS eligibleRole RETURN n.name, eligibleRole.displayName MATCH (n:Group) RETURN n.name, n.exposureScore ORDER BY n.exposureScore DESC curl -X POST https://bhe.example.com/api/v1/ingest/nodes -H 'Authorization: Bearer <token>' -d @nodes.json; curl -X POST https://bhe.example.com/api/v1/ingest/edges -H 'Authorization: Bearer <token>' -d @edges.json AzureHound --user-agent "MyCyberTool/1.0" .\SharpHound.exe -c Container,Group,LocalAdmin,RDP -m 'sMSA' SharpHound.exe --Loop --CollectionMethods All --ZipFileName result.zip --SkipPasswordCheck SharpHound.exe --Loop --CollectionMethods All --ZipFileName result.zip --DisableCertVerification
Summary
SharpHound is an open-source command-line collector that enumerates Active Directory environments and feeds the resulting data to BloodHound so attack pathsattack pathsA possible sequence of steps an attacker could take to reach a valuable target. It connects weaknesses, permissions and reachable systems rather than treating each finding separately. through a domain can be graphed. It runs as a standalone binary or compiled from source, gathering objects, sessions, ACLsACLsAn access control list, a set of rules allowing or denying operations for particular users, services or network addresses. It decides who can use a resource., and relationships like AdminSDHolder membership, SID-history-based group privileges, and AD CS certificate abuse data. It is built for red teamers and penetration testers mapping privilege escalationprivilege escalationGaining permissions beyond those an account or process initially had. It can turn limited access into administrator control or access to another user's resources. paths, though defenders auditing domain exposure use it the same way. It has no independent identity apart from BloodHound, whose Community Edition and Enterprise product it exists to supply with data, making it complementary to that platform rather than a competitor to anything else. Maintained by SpecterOps since 2021, with 41 contributors and a release 28 days ago, it remains actively developed.
SharpHound is a data collector for BloodHound CE that enumerates Active Directory environments to gather relationship and permission data.
How sharphound helps
Which accounts and groups in this domain sit on a path to Domain Admin?
walks the objects, sessions, ACLs, and group memberships it collects and hands the relationships to BloodHound, where the graph traces the shortest routes to high-privilege groups
Which computers have a session from a privileged user I could hop through?
records active sessions gathered from each reachable host, so BloodHound can graph which logged-on accounts touch which machines
Which objects have permissions nobody would expect, like ACLs granting control over a group or user?
enumerates ACL relationships on AD objects and feeds them into the graph so unexpected grants of control surface as edges
Is AdminSDHolder being used to grant standing privilege outside the normal group structure?
collects AdminSDHolder relationship data specifically so protected-object privilege paths show up as their own edges in the graph
Can an account with SID history reach privileges through a group it isn't formally a member of?
collects SID-history-based relationships on group objects so BloodHound can surface the privilege a foreign SID inherits through the group
Does this domain's certificate authority setup let someone escalate through AD CS misconfiguration?
gathers certificate-abuse data including role-separation and status details from the CA, giving BloodHound the edges needed to graph certificate-based escalation paths
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Shipping velocity releases a month, last 12 months
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Documentation quality release-notes rubric, 0–100
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Breaking-change discipline how rarely a release breaks users, and notice given
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Maintenance risk quiet time against its own cadence, maintainers
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Innovation & surface new capabilities, API and MCP surface
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Contributor trend distinct committers, this year against last
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Maintainer concentration bus factor now against a year ago
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Issue backlog trend issues closed per issue opened, 12 months
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Responsiveness median time to a maintainer’s first reply
Nine scores for sharphound, each built from the releases, notes and API history this site tracks — and, on Researcher and Business, where it stands among every measured tool in its category and how that has moved.
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How this is scored
- Shipping velocity — releases a month over the last 12 months, on a log scale where 16 a month scores 100. Needs 3 releases in the window.
- Documentation quality — the release-notes rubric published on the analytics page, unchanged.
- Breaking-change discipline — the share of releases carrying a breaking change (none scores 100, half or more scores 0). Only projects that label breaking changes are measured: a clean record cannot be told from an unlabelled one.
- Maintenance risk — quiet time measured against the tool's own release cadence (quiet longer than 90 days and three typical gaps scores 0), plus the number of active maintainers and whether contributors are growing, where known. Higher is lower risk.
- Innovation & surface — new capabilities in the feature ledger this year, API and MCP operations added, and the share of commits that are features: the mean of whichever we hold.
- Community health (open-source tools only) — each is a direction, not a size: contributors this year against last, the bus factor now against a year ago, and issues closed per issue opened, where steady scores 50, doubled 100 and halved 0; plus the median time to a maintainer's first reply (an hour scores about 100, a month or more 0). A commercial card has no repository and carries none of the four.
- Documented delivery (commercial tools) — when a vendor's documented new capabilities have slowed against its own baseline, that counts against the overall standing as heavily as two low dimensions. Steady delivery, or too little history to judge, leaves the standing alone; it is never a sixth score.
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Website history
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What sharphound connects to, runs on and detects, read from its release notes and docs. So far: 1 new detection.
1 change, tracked since Oct 1, 2026.
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Oct 12026
new Active Directory Sites ACL collection
Feature: Add collection of Active Directory Sites ACLs and data by @q-roland in https://github.com/SpecterOps/SharpHound/pull/186
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Releases
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Project health
Issue, contributor and maintainer activity in SpecterOps/SharpHound, 2023-10 – 2026-09, as of 2026-09-25. Twelve-month figures first; the trend lines run the whole window.
- Contributors 10 +1 vs prior 12 months
- Maintainers 3 +5 joined · −5 left, last 12 months
- Bus factor 2 committers behind half the commits
- Community-filed 100% of issues opened, last 12 months
- Median time to close 267 days first maintainer reply 267 days
- Open backlog 23 of 69 issues ever filed
- Issues opened / month 0 · 0 communitymaintainers
- Open backlog 23
- Contributors / month 3
- Commits / month 4
- Stars 1,344
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Counts from the project's public repository and git history; no individuals are identified. Maintainers are the committers covering 80% of the last year's commits. how we measure this
Articles
8 articles · updated Nov 4, 2026Where sharphound turns up in what others publish: how-tos, attack reports that name it, and incident write-ups. A row says why it is here and quotes where the article names it; the link goes to the publisher.
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PaperCut Attacker Uses Hundreds of AI Agents to Compromise 440+ Instances
…model, and publicly available offensive security tools (e.g., Mimikatz, SharpHound, Certipy, Rubeus, and Impacket) to compromise no less than 440 instances of PaperCut MF/NG hosted by 395 identified victim…
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AI-Coded Malware | Analyzing Vibe-Coded AD Enumeration | Huntress
If an attacker drops SharpHound, security tools instantly recognize the binary.
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Threat Group Assessment: Muddled Libra (Updated May 16, 2025)
Their toolkit included SharpHound, ADRecon, AD Explorer, Angry IP Scanner, Angry Port Scanner and CIMplant.
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