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Privilege Escalation Techniques

By : Alexis Ahmed
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Book Image

Privilege Escalation Techniques

5 (2)
By: Alexis Ahmed

Overview of this book

Privilege Escalation Techniques is a detailed guide to privilege escalation techniques and tools for both Windows and Linux systems. This is a one-of-a-kind resource that will deepen your understanding of both platforms and provide detailed, easy-to-follow instructions for your first foray into privilege escalation. The book uses virtual environments that you can download to test and run tools and techniques. After a refresher on gaining access and surveying systems, each chapter will feature an exploitation challenge in the form of pre-built virtual machines (VMs). As you progress, you will learn how to enumerate and exploit a target Linux or Windows system. You’ll then get a demonstration on how you can escalate your privileges to the highest level. By the end of this book, you will have gained all the knowledge and skills you need to be able to perform local kernel exploits, escalate privileges through vulnerabilities in services, maintain persistence, and enumerate information from the target such as passwords and password hashes.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
1
Section 1: Gaining Access and Local Enumeration
6
Section 2: Windows Privilege Escalation
12
Section 3: Linux Privilege Escalation

Summary

In this chapter, we got started with understanding how to identify and exploit unquoted service paths and how they can be utilized to execute a malicious binary in order to elevate our privileges. We also explored the process of exploiting the Windows secondary logon both manually and automatically with the Metasploit framework. We then took a look at how to identify and exploit weak service permissions and ended the chapter by taking an in-depth look at how to identify missing DLLs and the process of performing DLL hijacking.

In the next chapter, we will explore the process of privilege escalation through the Windows Registry.