Home » Blog » Exploiting a vulnerability in a Windows operating system. Escalating privileges to create administrator access on a compromised system.

Section 6. Exploiting a vulnerability in a Windows operating system.

Escalating privileges to create administrator access on a compromised system.

For this task you are going to exploit a vulnerability in a Windows system and create a new admin account so you can beach the system.

1.     Login to the Kali system with kali/kali

2.     Open the terminal console.

3.     Use Metasploit Framework to breach the Windows 7 system using the eternal blue exploit. Refer to previous labs for guidance here.

4.     Create a user account that is your student ID number.

5.     Add the account to the Administrator and Remote Desktop Users group.

6.     Enable remote desktop and log into the Windows 7 system using your account.

7.     Run the BGINFO file when prompted on login.

8.     Take a screenshot of the Windows 7 Desktop remotely accessed from your Kali system.
 Picture should be similar to the one shown below.

Scroll to Top
0%