windows-privilege-escalation

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Audited by Gen Agent Trust Hub on Sep 18, 2026

Risk Level: MEDIUMPRIVILEGE_ESCALATIONDATA_EXFILTRATIONCOMMAND_EXECUTION
Full Analysis
  • [PRIVILEGE_ESCALATION]: The skill provides comprehensive instructions for elevating privileges from a standard user to Administrator or SYSTEM. This includes exploiting unquoted service paths, weak service permissions using accesschk.exe, and performing token impersonation attacks (JuicyPotato, PrintSpoofer, RoguePotato, GodPotato). It also guides the agent in identifying and leveraging kernel vulnerabilities (e.g., MS17-010, CVE-2021-1732).
  • [DATA_EXFILTRATION]: The skill facilitates the discovery and exposure of sensitive local data and credentials. It provides methods to dump the SAM and SYSTEM registry hives to extract password hashes, query the registry for stored passwords (Autologon, PuTTY, VNC), and search the file system for configuration files (unattend.xml, sysprep.inf) and PowerShell command history (ConsoleHost_history.txt) which often contain plaintext secrets.
  • [COMMAND_EXECUTION]: The instructions involve executing high-privilege system commands and scripts to modify the environment. Examples include using sc config to change service binary paths to point to malicious payloads, and using msiexec to install malicious MSI files created with msfvenom.
Audit Metadata
Risk Level
MEDIUM
Analyzed
Sep 18, 2026, 01:24 PM