Windows Privesc

Active Directory

PetitPotam and Coercion Attacks: Forcing Authentication and Relaying to AD CS

How PetitPotam coerces machine authentication via MS-EFSRPC and relays it to AD CS for domain compromise — with detection and defense.
Security

Abusing Windows Token Privileges: The Potato Attack Family

How service accounts with SeImpersonatePrivilege escalate to SYSTEM via JuicyPotato, PrintSpoofer, and RoguePotato, plus blue-team defenses.
Windows Privesc

Privilege Escalation via Unquoted Service Paths on Windows

How unquoted Windows service paths with spaces let low-privileged users plant a binary and escalate to SYSTEM, plus blue-team defenses.
Windows Privesc

Weak Service Permissions: Privilege Escalation via SERVICE_CHANGE_CONFIG on Windows

Abuse misconfigured Windows service DACLs to rewrite binPath and escalate to SYSTEM, plus detection and hardening.
Security

DLL Hijacking: Privilege Escalation and Persistence on Windows

How DLL search order hijacking and phantom DLLs lead to privilege escalation and persistence, plus Blue Team detection and defense.
Windows Privesc

Abusing AlwaysInstallElevated for Windows Privilege Escalation

How a misconfigured AlwaysInstallElevated policy lets a low-privileged user run a malicious MSI as SYSTEM, plus detection and defense.
Windows Privesc

UAC Bypass Techniques: A Practical Overview of Auto-Elevation Abuse

A practical tour of Windows UAC bypass techniques abusing auto-elevating binaries, registry hijacks, and UACME, plus blue-team defenses.
Windows Privesc

Practical Credential Theft with Mimikatz

A hands-on guide to dumping Windows credentials with Mimikatz and the LSA protections that stop it.
Windows Privesc

Dumping LSASS Memory: Techniques and Detection Evasion

A practical guide to dumping LSASS memory with comsvcs.dll, procdump, and nanodump, plus parsing with pypykatz and blue-team defenses.
Windows Privesc

Looting Windows Secrets: Attacking DPAPI and Credential Manager

How attackers decrypt DPAPI-protected Credential Manager vaults and browser secrets, plus how blue teams detect and stop it.
Windows Privesc

Abusing Scheduled Tasks for Windows Persistence and Privilege Escalation

How attackers abuse writable task XML, schtasks, and Task Scheduler to persist and escalate on Windows, plus blue-team detection.
Windows Privesc

Abusing Registry Autoruns for Windows Persistence and Privilege Escalation

How attackers abuse writable Run keys and other autorun locations for persistence and privesc, plus how blue teams detect it.
Windows Privesc

AMSI and Windows Defender Bypass: A Practical Primer

A hands-on primer on AMSI patching, reflection, obfuscation, and in-memory bypasses, with blue-team detection guidance.
Windows Privesc

PowerShell Obfuscation and Execution Policy Bypass

How attackers bypass PowerShell ExecutionPolicy and CLM with obfuscation, and how defenders detect and stop it.
Windows Privesc

Lateral Movement and Persistence with WMI

How attackers abuse WMI for remote code execution and stealthy persistence, plus the detection and defenses blue teams need.
Windows Privesc

Named Pipe Impersonation: How Windows getsystem Really Works

A deep dive into ImpersonateNamedPipeClient and how named pipe impersonation powers Meterpreter's getsystem.
Windows Privesc

PrintNightmare: Abusing the Windows Print Spooler for Privilege Escalation and RCE

A practical walkthrough of CVE-2021-1675 and CVE-2021-34527 (PrintNightmare): abusing AddPrinterDriverEx for SYSTEM-level code execution, plus blue-team defenses.
Windows Privesc

Windows Event Logs and Forensic Artifacts: Tracking and Tampering

How Windows Security event logs record attacker activity, how adversaries clear them, and how defenders detect tampering.
Windows Privesc

Practical Windows Enumeration with winPEAS

A hands-on guide to running winPEASx64 for Windows privilege escalation enumeration, with defensive countermeasures.
Windows Privesc

Abusing SeBackupPrivilege and SeRestorePrivilege for Windows Privilege Escalation

How attackers abuse SeBackupPrivilege/SeRestorePrivilege to dump SAM, SYSTEM, and ntds.dit, plus blue-team detection and defense.