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Windows Manage Privilege Based Process Migration

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Disclosed
N/A
Created
May 30, 2018

Description

This module will migrate a Meterpreter session based on session privileges.
It will do everything it can to migrate, including spawning a new User level process.
For sessions with Admin rights: It will try to migrate into a System level process in the following
order: ANAME (if specified), services.exe, wininit.exe, svchost.exe, lsm.exe, lsass.exe, and winlogon.exe.
If all these fail and NOFAIL is set to true, it will fall back to User level migration. For sessions with User level rights:
It will try to migrate to a user level process, if that fails it will attempt to spawn the process
then migrate to it. It will attempt the User level processes in the following order:
NAME (if specified), explorer.exe, then notepad.exe.

Authors

Josh Hale "sn0wfa11" [email protected]
theLightCosine [email protected]

Platform

Windows

References

Module Options

To display the available options, load the module within the Metasploit console and run the commands 'show options' or 'show advanced':


    msf > use post/windows/manage/priv_migrate
    msf post(priv_migrate) > show actions
        ...actions...
    msf post(priv_migrate) > set ACTION < action-name >
    msf post(priv_migrate) > show options
        ...show and set options...
    msf post(priv_migrate) > run
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