Privilege Escalation Techniques: Learn the art of exploiting Windows and Linux systems

Enumerate and exploit Linux or Windows systems and escalate your privileges to the highest level

Key Features:

• Discover a range of techniques to escalate privileges on Windows and Linux systems
• Understand the key differences between Windows and Linux privilege escalation
• Explore unique exploitation challenges in each chapter provided in the form of pre-built VMs

Book Description:

Privilege escalation is a crucial step in the exploitation life cycle of a penetration tester. It helps penetration testers to set up persistence and facilitates lateral movement. This book is one of a kind, covering a range of privilege escalation techniques and tools for both Windows and Linux systems.

The book uses virtual environments that you can download to test and run tools and techniques. Each chapter will feature an exploitation challenge in the form of pre-built virtual machines (VMs). As you progress, you will learn how to enumerate and exploit a target Linux or Windows system. This privilege escalation book then demonstrates how you can escalate your privileges to the highest level.

By the end of this book, you will have gained the skills you need to be able to perform local kernel exploits, escalate privileges through vulnerabilities in services, maintain persistence, and enumerate information from the target such as passwords and password hashes.

What You Will Learn:

• Understand the privilege escalation process and set up a pentesting lab
• Gain an initial foothold on the system
• Perform local enumeration on target systems
• Exploit kernel vulnerabilities on Windows and Linux systems
• Perform privilege escalation through password looting and finding stored credentials
• Get to grips with performing impersonation attacks
• Exploit Windows services such as the secondary logon handle service to escalate Windows privileges
• Escalate Linux privileges by exploiting scheduled tasks and SUID binaries

Who this book is for:

This Windows and Linux privilege escalation book is for intermediate-level cybersecurity students and pentesters who are interested in learning how to perform various privilege escalation techniques on Windows and Linux systems, which includes exploiting bugs, design flaws, and more. An intermediate-level understanding of Windows and Linux systems along with fundamental cybersecurity knowledge is expected.

在這本書中，你將學習如何在Linux和Windows系統上進行特權升級，並將權限提升到最高級別。這是一本獨一無二的書籍，涵蓋了Windows和Linux系統的各種特權升級技術和工具。

書中使用了虛擬環境，你可以下載並測試運行工具和技術。每一章都會提供一個預先構建的虛擬機器（VM）作為特權升級挑戰。隨著你的學習進展，你將學習如何枚舉和利用目標Linux或Windows系統。這本特權升級書籍還演示了如何將權限提升到最高級別。

通過閱讀本書，你將學會執行本地核心漏洞利用、通過服務漏洞提升權限、維持持久性以及枚舉目標系統的信息（如密碼和密碼哈希）等技能。

本書適合中級水平的網絡安全學生和測試人員，他們有興趣學習如何在Windows和Linux系統上執行各種特權升級技術，包括利用漏洞、設計缺陷等。預期讀者具備中級水平的Windows和Linux系統知識以及基本的網絡安全知識。