Full Disclosure: Re: Abusing Windows 7 Recovery Process

[Fabien DUCHENE <f.duchene () car-online fr>]

There may be an Active Directory domain policy which only allows a
configured set of groups/users to be admin of your workstation.
Keep in mind domain policies are applied at startup and periodically.

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> Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2013 15:16:45 +0100
> From: some one <s3cret.squirell () gmail com>
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> Subject: Re: [Full-disclosure] Abusing Windows 7 Recovery Process
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> I tried this out onsite today. Got the cmd.exe as described and added a
> user into local admin group... Restart the box try and login as new user
> and it isn't there...
>
> Logged in as a legit admin and ran net users and no mention of my created
> account... Weird...
> On Jun 30, 2013 10:54 AM, "Cool Hand Luke" <coolhandluke () coolhandluke org>
> wrote:
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> > On 06/29, Grandma Eubanks wrote:
> > > However, I think this is still interesting. It's been a while since I've
> > > played with Windows boxes and won't have access to one for a couple days,
> > > but isn't this triggering off of vendor supplied recovery partitions?
> > This
> > > is a regular Windows 7 sole partition box you tried this one?
> > from a first look, i don't think a vendor-supplied recovery partition is
> > necessary. it appears that it would also be possible if the "system
> > restore" setting was enabled (but don't quote me on that).
> >
> > i'm not sure how likely that is in your average large, corporate
> > environment. the ones i've seen have system restore disabled and opt to
> > reimage systems instead when issues occur. i'm sure there are some
> > environments where this could be useful, however.
> >
> > - -chl
> >
> > - --
> > cool hand luke
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