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Red tradecraft
Dumpster diving behind the windows store
  • Privacy greenhouse
  • Defence blues
  • Purple crossroads
  • Indigo observatory
  • Contact
Initializing search
    • An adversary mind map, one of many
      • Footing
      • What is there
      • Findings
      • Mapping
      • Turning access into position
        • Distinguishing interaction from capability
        • Spending capabilities for lateral movement
        • Operational reach and positional value
        • Getting past the login page
        • What honours what
        • Getting the lid off
          • Digging under the Linux shed
          • Dumpster diving behind the windows store
            • Reuseful escalation patterns
            • Harvesting passwords
            • Quick misconfiguration wins
            • Abusing service misconfigurations
            • Abusing dangerous privileges
            • Abusing vulnerable software
            • Shellcode techniques
          • Dumpster diving behind the windows store
            • Reuseful escalation patterns
            • Harvesting passwords
            • Quick misconfiguration wins
            • Abusing service misconfigurations
            • Abusing dangerous privileges
            • Abusing vulnerable software
            • Shellcode techniques
          • Climbing the permission graph
          • Getting out of the box
        • Getting something of one’s own to run
        • Overflowing the bin on purpose
        • Crypto-attacks
        • Reverse engineering
        • Slipping through the cracks
        • The art of becoming part of the furniture
      • What changed, and what it cost
      • Revising, then pricing
      • Converting position into value
      • Assessing, then deciding
    • The grounds
    • Ankh-Morpork: the city leaves a footprint
    • Fungolia earthworks
    • Unseen University Power & Light Co.
    • The Scarlet Semaphore
    • TryHackMe rooms
    • Root-Me challenges
    • RIPE NCC Academy labs

    Dumpster diving behind the windows store¶

    From services left wide open to the delicious honey of credential harvesting, Windows offers a buffet of privilege escalation snacks. It is persistence with a GUI and a side of regret.

    The forest has houses, and most of those houses have Windows.

    • Reuseful escalation patterns
    • Harvesting passwords
    • Quick misconfiguration wins
    • Abusing service misconfigurations
    • Abusing dangerous privileges
    • Abusing vulnerable software
    • Shellcode techniques
    2026-07-30 17:57
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