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Adds RPC encryption properties to the graph schema and ingestion so ESC11 analysis can evaluate Enterprise CA RPC protection.

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  • New Features
    • Added RPC encryption enforcement and collection information to Active Directory graph data.
    • Added support for visualizing and traversing the NTLM-to-AD CS coercion relationship.
  • Bug Fixes
    • Improved interpretation of NTLM registry settings, including restriction states, allowed servers, and SMB signing.
    • Applied consistent defaults for collected registry data while preserving unknown values where appropriate.
    • Added collection of RPC encryption enforcement status from certificate authority registry data.

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Walkthrough

The changes add RPC encryption properties and the CoerceAndRelayNTLMToADCSRPC relationship to AD graph schemas. They expose collected RPC enforcement data and update NTLM registry conversion defaults, with tests for policy mappings, collection states, and overrides.

Changes: ADCS RPC graph schema

Layer / File(s) Summary
RPC encryption property contract
packages/csharp/graphschema/PropertyNames.cs, packages/go/ein/incoming_models.go, packages/go/ein/ad.go, packages/cue/bh/ad/ad.cue, packages/go/graphschema/ad/ad.go, packages/javascript/bh-shared-ui/src/graphSchema.ts
CUE, Go, C#, and JavaScript schemas define and expose the RPC encryption properties. The CA registry model carries enforcement data, and registry conversion adds collected enforcement values to the property map.
ADCS RPC relationship registration
packages/cue/bh/ad/ad.cue, packages/go/graphschema/ad/ad.go, packages/go/graphschema/common/common.go, cmd/api/src/database/migration/extensions/ad_graph_schema.sql, packages/javascript/bh-shared-ui/src/graphSchema.ts
The graph schemas register CoerceAndRelayNTLMToADCSRPC in relationship, composition, traversal, and pathfinding lists. The Go common relationship lists also add DCFor to outbound kinds.

NTLM registry conversion

Layer / File(s) Summary
NTLM defaults and registry overrides
packages/go/ein/ad.go, packages/go/ein/ad_test.go
Collected NTLM registry data now uses stable defaults, derives server-side SMB signing from the computer role, and preserves collected-value overrides. Tests cover policy values, collection states, role defaults, and overrides.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Change: Feature

Possibly related PRs

  • SpecterOps/BloodHound#3494: Adds ESC11 searches and edge-filter entries that use the RPC enforcement property and relationship kind defined here.
  • SpecterOps/BloodHound#3493: Adds ESC11 analysis that uses the RPC enforcement property and relationship kind defined and ingested here.

Suggested labels: go, javascript, enhancement

Suggested reviewers: lawsonwillard

Merge Risk: Moderate · previous review bb935

Graph security metadata can be incomplete for collected CAs and domain controllers; both localized conversion defects should be fixed before merging.

Security architecture risk: Low · up to bb935

The changes primarily extend security-analysis data rather than grant new privileges or configure RPC access. The main concern is incomplete collection-status projection. Current RPC analysis consumers and recollection behavior were not fully established, so end-to-end correctness remains uncertain.

Retained concerns

  • Low · architecture · observed: The new rpcencryptioncollected property is registered publicly, but EnterpriseCA conversion does not derive it from RPCEncryptionEnforced.Collected. Consumers requiring that explicit status depend on an independently supplied Properties entry rather than the structured registry result. This is a collection-provenance contract gap; no current security-analysis failure was established.
Security review details

Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — The demonstrated exposure is the integrity of ingested EnterpriseCA protection data and computer NTLM analysis eligibility. The inspected changes do not demonstrate new service authority, credential access, or cross-tenant reachability; maximum external-consumer exposure remains unestablished.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — Collector-supplied data enters the existing ingestion path. The new RPC field is a boolean result guarded by its collection flag, and persistence continues to identify nodes by base kind and object ID. These checks are data-shape and identity controls, not proof that a collector's assertions are trustworthy.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • observed — RPC recollection with Collected=false does not explicitly clear the prior enforcement property. Updates use the existing direct or changelog-mediated UpdateNodeBy path. Whether an older value survives depends on backend omitted-property semantics, which were not established; stale protection state is therefore an unresolved possibility, not a verified finding.

Hardening Proposals

  • proposed — Establish one authoritative collection-status projection and define how consumers distinguish current, unknown, and previously collected RPC protection data before enabling RPC-based analysis. Validate successful true/false collection, failed recollection, and repeated updates against the supported backend.
Pre-merge checks: Passed 4 · Inconclusive 1

Failed Failed checks: 1 inconclusive

Check name Status Explanation Resolution
Description check Inconclusive The description is short and states the purpose: adding RPC encryption properties to the graph schema and ingestion so ESC11 analysis can evaluate Enterprise CA RPC protection. It omits the template s… Add the template sections that are missing or incomplete: (1) Replace the Resolves placeholder with the associated ticket, BED-6182, or the GitHub issue number. (2) Expand the Description to list the new properties (RPCEncryptionEnforced, R…
Passed Passed checks: 4 passed

Check name Status Explanation
Title check Passed The title names the main change: collecting ADCS RPC encryption properties. The changeset adds RPCEncryptionEnforced and RPCEncryptionCollected to the schema, the CUE definitions, the Go ingestion mod…
Docstring Coverage Passed Docstring coverage is inconclusive: files from earlier reviews still need to be rechecked within the check's analysis limits. Not blocking.
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The title names the main change: collecting ADCS RPC encryption properties. The changeset adds RPCEncryptionEnforced and RPCEncryptionCollected to the schema, the CUE definitions, the Go ingestion models, and the TypeScript UI model, and it also adds the CoerceAndRelayNTLMToADCSRPC relationship kind. The title covers the primary change but not the relationship kind, so it is a partial match at most. It is concise, uses a conventional commit prefix, and includes the ticket reference.

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The description is short and states the purpose: adding RPC encryption properties to the graph schema and ingestion so ESC11 analysis can evaluate Enterprise CA RPC protection. It omits the template sections for Motivation and Context (the ticket is not linked), How Has This Been Tested, Types of changes, and the checklist. The linked ticket is missing, and the template requires an associated Jira ticket or GitHub issue.

Resolution

Add the template sections that are missing or incomplete: (1) Replace the Resolves placeholder with the associated ticket, BED-6182, or the GitHub issue number. (2) Expand the Description to list the new properties (RPCEncryptionEnforced, RPCEncryptionCollected), the new CoerceAndRelayNTLMToADCSRPC relationship kind, and the NTLM registry default changes in ConvertComputerToNode. (3) Describe the testing performed, such as the new Go tests in ad_test.go and the test environment. (4) Select the applicable Types of changes, which likely include New feature and Database Migrations because of ad_graph_schema.sql. (5) Complete the checklist items, or state which items remain open.

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Review comments at @packages/go/analysis/post/sink_callers_test.go:
- Around line 78-94: Update the fake database behavior used by processor.process
to honor the lastseen predicate in MigrationForDCAPostProcessedEdges queries, so
migration cannot return or remove relationship 77 unless it has lastseen; keep
firstseen unrelated to this check.

Review comments at @packages/go/graphschema/ad/ad.go:
- Line 1227: Update PostProcessedRelationships to include
CoerceAndRelayNTLMToADCS and CoerceAndRelayNTLMToADCSRPC so DeleteTransitEdges
can remove stale ADCS relay relationships during post-processing.

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Comment on lines +78 to +94
switch outcome {
case "producer failure":
database.producerError = failure
case "writer failure":
database.flushError = failure
case "pruning failure":
database.deleteError = failure
}

_, err := processor.process(t.Context(), database)
if outcome == "successful empty generation" {
require.NoError(t, err)
require.Empty(t, database.relationships, "a complete empty result must remove obsolete edges")
} else {
require.ErrorIs(t, err, failure)
require.True(t, database.relationships[77], "incomplete processing must retain the existing edge")
}

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

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Ensure writer and pruning failures reach the sink.

MigrationForDCAPostProcessedEdges runs before sink creation. The fake returns relationship 77 for any query containing the tracked kind and ignores the migration query's Exists(lastseen) condition. Migration can therefore fail or delete relationship 77 before the writer or pruning phase runs. The successful-empty case can pass because migration removed the edge.

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Update the fake database behavior used by processor.process to honor the
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Minor · Emit RPCEncryptionCollected at the conversion boundary. · ad.go:1337-1340

packages/go/ein/ad.go:1337-1340
Minor · Data Integrity & Integration · Quick win

Emit RPCEncryptionCollected at the conversion boundary.

convertEnterpriseCAData reaches this parser for every Enterprise CA, but the parser drops the registered collection-state property. This loses the explicit distinction between “not collected” and a collected setting value. Emit the state separately, as the other ...Collected properties do.

Suggested fix
 	// RPCEncryptionEnforced
+	propMap[ad.RPCEncryptionCollected.String()] = enterpriseCA.CARegistryData.RPCEncryptionEnforced.Collected
 	if enterpriseCA.CARegistryData.RPCEncryptionEnforced.Collected {
 		propMap[ad.RPCEncryptionEnforced.String()] = enterpriseCA.CARegistryData.RPCEncryptionEnforced.Value
 	}
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Review comment at @packages/go/ein/ad.go around lines 1337 - 1340:
In the Enterprise CA conversion path, emit the RPC encryption collection state
separately from its setting value. Add the RPCEncryptionCollected property from
RPCEncryptionEnforced.Collected before the conditional that emits
RPCEncryptionEnforced.Value, preserving emission of the state whether or not the
setting was collected.
Minor · Derive the NTLM signing default from Computer.IsDC. · ad.go:122-137

packages/go/ein/ad.go:122-137
Minor · Functional Correctness · Quick win

Derive the NTLM signing default from Computer.IsDC.

A version 6+ computer payload can set IsDC: true without an isdc property-map entry. When NTLM registry data is collected and the registry does not provide EnableSecuritySignature, the current lookup fails after the converter resets the property to nil. The domain controller is therefore ingested without the expected true default. Keep the later registry-value override.

Suggested fix
-			if isDomainController, hasDomainControllerProperty := itemProps[ad.IsDC.String()].(bool); hasDomainControllerProperty {
-				itemProps[ad.EnableSecuritySignature.String()] = isDomainController
-			}
+			itemProps[ad.EnableSecuritySignature.String()] = item.IsDC
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Review comment at @packages/go/ein/ad.go around lines 122 - 137:
Update the NTLM signing default in the NTLM registry-data handling block to
derive from the computer’s IsDC field rather than the optional itemProps entry.
Preserve the later registry-value override so an explicitly collected
EnableSecuritySignature value still takes precedence.

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Review comments at @packages/go/ein/ad.go:
- Around line 1337-1340: In the Enterprise CA conversion path, emit the RPC
encryption collection state separately from its setting value. Add the
RPCEncryptionCollected property from RPCEncryptionEnforced.Collected before the
conditional that emits RPCEncryptionEnforced.Value, preserving emission of the
state whether or not the setting was collected.
- Around line 122-137: Update the NTLM signing default in the NTLM registry-data
handling block to derive from the computer’s IsDC field rather than the optional
itemProps entry. Preserve the later registry-value override so an explicitly
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