Mastering Kali Linux for Advanced Penetration Testing - Third Edition

User Account Control (UAC)

Recent developments show there are 52 different ways to bypass Windows UAC, which can be found at https://github.com/hfiref0x/UACME. This project is primarily focused on reverse engineering malware. All the source code is written in C# and C; this will require attackers to compile the code and then perform the informed attacks.

Microsoft introduced security controls to restrict processes from running at three different integrity levels: high, medium, and low. A high integrity process has administrator rights, a medium-level process runs with a standard user's rights, and a low integrity process is restricted, enforcing programs do minimal damage if they are compromised.

To perform any privileged actions, a program ...