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Mastering Kali Linux for Advanced Penetration Testing, Second Edition

You're reading from   Mastering Kali Linux for Advanced Penetration Testing, Second Edition Secure your network with Kali Linux – the ultimate white hat hackers' toolkit

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787120235
Length 510 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Vijay Kumar Velu Vijay Kumar Velu
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Preface 1. Goal-Based Penetration Testing FREE CHAPTER 2. Open Source Intelligence and Passive Reconnaissance 3. Active Reconnaissance of External and Internal Networks 4. Vulnerability Assessment 5. Physical Security and Social Engineering 6. Wireless Attacks 7. Reconnaissance and Exploitation of Web-Based Applications 8. Attacking Remote Access 9. Client-Side Exploitation 10. Bypassing Security Controls 11. Exploitation 12. Action on the Objective 13. Privilege Escalation 14. Command and Control

Local system escalation

We may be able to run the Meterpreter shell in the content of the user. There are multiple ways to escalate the privilege on the local system. This can be achieved by PowerShell custom exploits, as well as Meterpreter shell.

When attackers initially gain access to the system and try to run system-level commands, they receive the response access denied, or no privilege available to run the commands on the target system. This can be verified by running the getsystem command from the Meterpreter console, as shown in the following screenshot:

This can be bypassed by using the post exploit module by sending background to your Meterpreter shell and using the bypassuac post exploit module, as shown in the following screenshot:

meterpreter > background
[*] Backgrounding session 2...
msf exploit(psexec) > use exploit/windows/local/bypassuac
msf exploit(bypassuac...
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