windows-privilege-escalation
Fail
Audited by Gen Agent Trust Hub on Sep 19, 2026
Risk Level: HIGHPRIVILEGE_ESCALATIONCREDENTIALS_UNSAFEREMOTE_CODE_EXECUTIONCOMMAND_EXECUTIONDATA_EXFILTRATIONDYNAMIC_EXECUTIONINDIRECT_PROMPT_INJECTION
Full Analysis
- [PRIVILEGE_ESCALATION]: The skill is entirely dedicated to escalating user privileges from standard user to Administrator or SYSTEM.
- Provides instructions for exploiting Service Binary Paths using
sc configto redirect service execution to attacker-controlled shells. - Includes methodologies for 'Potato' attacks (JuicyPotato, PrintSpoofer, RoguePotato, GodPotato) to abuse SeImpersonatePrivilege and SeAssignPrimaryTokenPrivilege.
- Detailed exploitation of the AlwaysInstallElevated registry setting to install malicious MSI packages as SYSTEM.
- Instructions for exploiting unquoted service paths by placing malicious executables in writable parent directories.
- [CREDENTIALS_UNSAFE]: The skill facilitates the harvesting of sensitive authentication data.
- Commands to locate and extract the SAM and SYSTEM registry hives which contain password hashes.
- Specific exploit workflow for CVE-2021-36934 (HiveNightmare) using Mimikatz to read shadow copies of credential hives.
- Systematic search patterns for passwords in the registry, configuration files, and unattend.xml files.
- Extraction of cleartext WiFi passwords using
netsh wlan show profile. - Instructions to read PowerShell history files (
ConsoleHost_history.txt) which often contain sensitive commands and passwords. - [REMOTE_CODE_EXECUTION]: The skill describes methods to execute arbitrary code provided by an attacker.
- Workflow for generating and installing malicious MSI files using
msfvenomandmsiexec. - Use of
nc.exe(Netcat) to establish reverse shells from the target system to an external IP address. - Guidance on transferring and running third-party offensive binaries such as WinPEAS, Seatbelt, and various Potato exploits.
- [COMMAND_EXECUTION]: Extensive use of shell commands (PowerShell and CMD) to probe system architecture, user privileges, network configurations, and active connections.
- [DATA_EXFILTRATION]: Provides the capability to extract sensitive system information and credentials, which can then be sent to an external attacker-controlled listener via the reverse shell workflows described.
- [DYNAMIC_EXECUTION]: Instructions for runtime compilation of malicious DLLs using Mingw-w64 (
x86_64-w64-mingw32-gcc) for DLL hijacking attacks. - [INDIRECT_PROMPT_INJECTION]:
- Ingestion points: The skill ingests data from local system files (
findstron.xml,.ini,.txt,.config), registry values, and command outputs (e.g.,systeminfopassed towes.py). - Boundary markers: Includes a 'Mandatory confirmation gate' instructing the agent to wait for user authorization before executing dangerous commands.
- Capability inventory: Includes service configuration modification, MSI installation, registry manipulation, and network reverse shells.
- Sanitization: No explicit sanitization or validation of the ingested file content is mentioned before processing.
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