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Achieve Privilege Escalation and Persistence Using PowerShell

In this lab, you’ll practice privilege escalation and persistence using PowerShell. When you’re finished, you’ll have the skills needed to escalate privileges using a RCE on PowerShell based on a misconfigured OS setting and be able to persist your access using simple techniques within PowerShell.

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Level
Clock icon Beginner
Duration
Clock icon 1h 0m
Published
Clock icon May 11, 2023

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Table of Contents

  1. Challenge

    Getting Started in the Lab Environment

    Here are the initial instructions and explanation of the lab environment. Read this while your environment is busy creating itself from nothing. Yes, this violates physics; we know. How fun!

  2. Challenge

    Persistence with Powershell

    This challenge will focus on obtaining persistence using PowerShell. In this challenge you will learn how to leverage the PowerShell profile, scheduled tasks and registry implants.

  3. Challenge

    Privilege escalation with Powershell

    This challenge will focus on how PowerShell can be used to execute a RCE elevating privileges to SYSTEM. It will leverage the SeDebugPrivilege which can be used to spawn an administrative shell.

  4. Challenge

    The Last Challenge

    Welcome to the final challenge! This is your last chance to experiment in the environment. Clicking Finish Lab will end this little world that flittered into existence just for you.

Rishalin Pillay has over 12 years of cybersecurity experience and has acquired a vast amount of skills consulting for Fortune 500 companies while taking part in projects performing tasks in network security design, implementation, and vulnerability analysis. He holds many certifications that demonstrate his knowledge and expertise in the cybersecurity field. He is an author and content contributor to a number of books.

What's a lab?

Hands-on Labs are real environments created by industry experts to help you learn. These environments help you gain knowledge and experience, practice without compromising your system, test without risk, destroy without fear, and let you learn from your mistakes. Hands-on Labs: practice your skills before delivering in the real world.

Provided environment for hands-on practice

We will provide the credentials and environment necessary for you to practice right within your browser.

Guided walkthrough

Follow along with the author’s guided walkthrough and build something new in your provided environment!

Did you know?

On average, you retain 75% more of your learning if you get time for practice.