BloodHound is a tool designed for Active Directory attack path analysis.

It enumerates relationships between users, groups, and computers, showing how a low-privileged account can escalate privileges to high-value targets (like the HR database server).

This exactly matches the tester’s objective: modeling attack paths to accounts with sufficient permissions.

Why not the others?

A. Responder: Used for LLMNR/NBT-NS poisoning and credential capture, not AD path analysis.

B. Mimikatz: Used for credential dumping (plaintext passwords, hashes, Kerberos tickets), but doesn’t model attack paths.

C. Hydra: Brute-force login tool, not for AD privilege pathing.

E. TruffleHog: Secret discovery tool (API keys, passwords in repos), unrelated to AD attack path analysis.

CompTIA PT0-003 Objective Mapping:

Domain 2.0 Information Gathering and Vulnerability Scanning

2.4: Use appropriate tools for network/AD enumeration and privilege escalation path discovery (BloodHound).