General

Escalation Vectors

1. Stored Credentials

2. Windows Kernel Exploit

3. DLL Injection

4. Unattended Answer File

5. Insecure File/Folder Permissions

6. Insecure Service Permissions

7. DLL Hijacking

8. Group Policy Preferences

9. Unquoted Service Path

10. Always Install Elevated

11. Token Manipulation

12. Insecure Registry Permissions

13. Autologon User Credential

14. User Account Control (UAC) Bypass

15. Insecure Named Pipes Permissions

16. Scheduled task

Checklist

1. Initial Information Gathering

2. Using script or manual enumeration

3. Use wmic for information gathering (see wmic script)

4. Review all info gathered

5. Look for some quick security fails which can be easily leveraged to upgrade our user privileges (see wmic script)

   wmic qfe get Caption,Description,HotFixID,InstalledOn

6. Look for password or any sensitive information

7. refer Interesting Files and Sensitive Information

8. Look at Windows services and file/folder permissions to escalate privilege

9. sc and accesschk.exe

Common technique

• Videos - YouTube

• WPE-01 - Stored Credentials

• WPE-02 - Windows Kernel

• WPE-03 - DLL Injection

• WPE-04 - Weak Service Permissions

• WPE-05 - DLL Hijacking

• WPE-06 - Hot Potato

• WPE-07 - Group Policy Preferences

• WPE-08 - Unquoted Service Path

• WPE-09 - Always Install Elevated

• WPE-10 - Token Manipulation

• WPE-11 - Secondary Logon Handle

• WPE-12 - Insecure Registry Permissions

• WPE-13 - Intel SYSRET