Post Exploitation

The Windows privilege escalation surface has narrowed since the days of unquoted-service-path goldmines, but it hasn’t disappeared. Token abuse, misconfigured services, and overlooked AutoLogon registry entries still net SYSTEM on a meaningful percentage of corporate hosts. Step 0: Baseline whoami /all systeminfo | findstr /B /C:"OS Name" /C:"OS Version" /C:"System Type" hostname whoami /all is the single most informative command. Look at: ...

You have a low-privilege shell. Now what? This cheat sheet is the ordered, opinionated checklist that solves the privesc step on most CTFs and audits. 0. Stabilize the Shell python3 -c 'import pty; pty.spawn("/bin/bash")' export TERM=xterm-256color stty raw -echo; fg # back in your terminal: stty rows X cols Y A broken shell wastes hours. ...