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Python for Offensive PenTest

You're reading from   Python for Offensive PenTest A practical guide to ethical hacking and penetration testing using Python

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788838979
Length 176 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Hussam Khrais Hussam Khrais
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Table of Contents (8) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Warming up – Your First Antivirus-Free Persistence Shell 2. Advanced Scriptable Shell FREE CHAPTER 3. Password Hacking 4. Catch Me If You Can! 5. Miscellaneous Fun in Windows 6. Abuse of Cryptography by Malware 7. Other Books You May Enjoy

Privilege escalation – preparing vulnerable software

For this demonstration, I will be using a vulnerable software named Photodex taken from an Exploit Database website. You can download this software from https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/24872/. Once the software is downloaded, install this software on our target machine. Once it's finished, restart the machine.

So now, let's try and create a nonadmin standard account in our target Windows machine by going to Control Panel | Add or remove user accounts | Create a new account. Let's call this one nonadmin. After creating the account log into the nonadmin account and navigate to the Photodex directory created while installation at C:\ drive and at the same time, open the Task Manager.

You will be able to see the service name, which gets created by Photodex software, which is...

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