Bypassing Windows operating system controls
In every corporate environment, we see that all the endpoints provided to end users are typically Windows operating systems. The likelihood of exploiting Windows is always high due to its level of usage. In this section, we will focus on some of the specific Windows operating system security controls and how to bypass them post access to the endpoint. In the following example, we have utilized a Windows 10 virtual machine for demonstration purposes.
User Account Control (UAC)
Recent developments show there are different ways to bypass Windows UAC, which can be found at https://github.com/hfiref0x/UACME. This project is primarily focused on reverse-engineering malware. All the source code is written in C# and C; this will require attackers to compile the code and then perform the informed attacks.
Microsoft introduced security controls to restrict processes from running at three different integrity levels: high, medium, and low...
