Privilege Escalation Techniques is a detailed guide to privilege escalation techniques and tools for both Windows and Linux systems. This is a one-of-a-kind resource that will deepen your understanding of both platforms and provide detailed, easy-to-follow instructions for your first foray into privilege escalation.
The book uses virtual environments that you can download to test and run tools and techniques. After a refresher on gaining access and surveying systems, each chapter will feature an exploitation challenge in the form of pre-built virtual machines (VMs). As you progress, you will learn how to enumerate and exploit a target Linux or Windows system. You’ll then get a demonstration on how you can escalate your privileges to the highest level.
By the end of this book, you will have gained all the knowledge and skills you need to be able to perform local kernel exploits, escalate privileges through vulnerabilities in services, maintain persistence, and enumerate information from the target such as passwords and password hashes.
Understand the privilege escalation process and set up a pentesting lab
Gain an initial foothold on the system
Perform local enumeration on target systems
Exploit kernel vulnerabilities on Windows and Linux systems
Perform privilege escalation through password looting and finding stored credentials
Get to grips with performing impersonation attacks
Exploit Windows services such as the secondary logon handle service to escalate Windows privileges
Escalate Linux privileges by exploiting scheduled tasks and SUID binaries