full-disclosure - Re: Abusing Windows 7 Recovery Process

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Date: Sat, 13 Jul 2013 13:23:18 +0200
From: Alex <fd@...oo.de>
To: Chris Arg <grkcharge@...il.com>, <full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk>
Subject: Re: Abusing Windows 7 Recovery Process

This one is a classic, but it will fail integrity checks of 
tripwire/ossec/whatever you use.



Am 12. Juli 2013 17:45:57 schrieb Chris Arg <grkcharge@...il.com>:
> Swap out a binary while in recovery...for instance the magnify.exe binary
> with cmd.exe. Reboot and at the login screen (if it's still enabled) run
> the magnify tool. CMD opens up with SYSTEM privs. Add your local admin user.
>
> Dirty and fast.
>
>
> On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 5:40 AM, Alex <fd@...oo.de> wrote:
>
> > **
> >
> > I doubt that you can use the SAM from another computer on yours. The SAM
> > file is encrypted.
> >
> > For further reading/information google "bkhive" and/or "samdump2".
> >
> > I still agree, that the computer is compromised once you get physical
> > access. If you do it via USB/CD live boot or removing the HDD doesnt matter.
> >
> >
> >
> > Am 2013-07-10 23:27, schrieb some one:
> >
> >
> > On Jul 10, 2013 9:16 PM, "some one" <s3cret.squirell@...il.com> wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > On Jul 10, 2013 1:51 PM, "Gregory Boddin" <gregory@...hine.net> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > It won't.
> > > >
> > > > The whole point is to have full local access to hard-drives (from a
> > locked workstation for eg), to modify/read things in it.
> > > >
> > > > The loaded environment IS a live environment. I would say: almost a
> > copy of the install CD loaded from the hard-drive.
> > > >
> > > > What you can do is : take the SAM, modify somewhere else (not a
> > windows expert tough), re-inject and gain local access. (which is kind of
> > useless since local data are already available once the recovery is booted,
> > unless there's software you would like to run in that workstation once the
> > password is reset).
> > >
> > Oops, pressed send... Try again...
> >
> > Hmm, not sure about this...
> >
> > Haven't tried but lets say recovery console is running as system which can
> > read the SAM and it lets us copy it off the box to a share or usb or
> > whatever, if we can get it off i'm guessing we can rip out the hashes for
> > the users and attempt to crack them, spray them about or whatever...
> >
> > But changing one so we know the password and then putting it back, doubt
> > this will work will it, as essentially we are changing the SAM file anyway
> > aren't we when we create a new legit user through net commands and it
> > discards this change when we reboot, or are there 2 SAM files? One in live
> > environment which dissapears and the real one...
> >
> > Pass, i will try it out again when i get 10mins..:-)
> > >
> > > >
> > > > On 9 July 2013 20:39, some one <s3cret.squirell@...il.com> wrote:
> > > >>
> > > >> My initial thoughts after adding the user and rebooting was that it
> > was only valid in the recovery console session or something as once i
> > rebooted it was gone...
> > > >>
> > > >> Tried it again today in a different place and same deal. Reboot no
> > new user...
> > > >>
> > > >> Anyone have this working after reboot?
> > > >>
> > > >> Once you've inserted your payload with admin-or-better rights, it can
> > be
> > > >> anything from a rootkit that GP can't touch to a patched GP subsys
> > that
> > > >> doesn't apply AD policies. This isn't really a caveat.
> > > >>
> > > >>
> > > >> On 2013-07-08 12:39:18 (+0200), Fabien DUCHENE wrote:
> > > >> > There may be an Active Directory domain policy which only allows a
> > > >> > configured set of groups/users to be admin of your workstation.
> > > >> > Keep in mind domain policies are applied at startup and
> > periodically.
> > > >>
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