UAC Windows Privilege Escalation
UAC (User Account Control) is an access control enforcement feature.
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UAC (User Account Control) is an access control enforcement feature.
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is an automation tool for defeating Windows UAC.
Open AZMAN.MSC by entering “azman.msc” in the Run.
Click Help and select Help Topics. The MMC window will open.
In the MMC window, right-click and select View Source. The Notepad opens.
In the Notepad, select File → Open.
In Explorer, select Windows/System32/cmd.exe and right-click, then select Open.
We should escalate to High integrity level.
Fodhelper manages the Windows features settings.
First start listener in local machine for getting incoming connection.
In remote Windows machien, add subkey to the registry and execute fodhelper to reverse shell.
We should get a shell and elevate High integrity level.
To check the IL, run the following command.
Finally, we need to clear the above settings to avoid detection.
Start listener for getting reverse connection in local machine.
Add the entry to registry to reverse shell.
Open System Configuration by entering "msconfig" in the Run.
Go to Tools tab and select Command Prompt, then click Launch.
We should escalate to High integrity level.
UAC Windows Certificate Dialog is vulnerable to privilege escalation.
Open hhupd.exe. The User Account Control window opens.
Click the "Show more details" and click also "Show information about the publisher’s certificate".
Now click the "Issued by" link. Web browser will open.
In web browser, select Tools -> File -> Save as....
On the explorer window address path, enter the cmd.exe full path as below:
"c:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe"
Now we escalated the privilege.
