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Windows Privilege Escalation

Learn the fundamentals of Windows privilege escalation techniques.

Task 1: Introduction

Task 2: Windows Privilege Escalation

Task 3: Harvesting Passwords from Usual Spots

Task 4: Other Quick Wins

Task 5: Abusing Service Misconfigurations

Task 6: Abusing dangerous privileges

Task 7: Abusing vulnerable software

Task 8: Tools of the Trade

Task 9: Conclusion

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Windows Privilege Escalation

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Learn the fundamentals of Windows privilege escalation techniques.

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During a penetration test, you will often have access to some Windows hosts with an unprivileged user. Unprivileged users will hold limited access, including their files and folders only, and have no means to perform administrative tasks on the host, preventing you from having complete control over your target.

This room covers fundamental techniques that attackers can use to elevate privileges in a Windows environment, allowing you to use any initial unprivileged foothold on a host to escalate to an administrator account, where possible.

 If you want to brush up on your skills first, you can have a look through the Windows Fundamentals Module or the Hacking Windows Module.

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