Tools

Tool

Description

C# project for performing a wide variety of local privilege escalation checks

WinPEAS is a script that searches for possible paths to escalate privileges on Windows hosts. All of the checks are explained here

PowerUp

PowerShell script for finding common Windows privilege escalation vectors that rely on misconfigurations. It can also be used to exploit some of the issues found

SharpUp

C# version of PowerUp

JAWS

PowerShell script for enumerating privilege escalation vectors written in PowerShell 2.0

SessionGopher

SessionGopher is a PowerShell tool that finds and decrypts saved session information for remote access tools. It extracts PuTTY, WinSCP, SuperPuTTY, FileZilla, and RDP saved session information

Watson

Watson is a .NET tool designed to enumerate missing KBs and suggest exploits for Privilege Escalation vulnerabilities.

LaZagne

Tool used for retrieving passwords stored on a local machine from web browsers, chat tools, databases, Git, email, memory dumps, PHP, sysadmin tools, wireless network configurations, internal Windows password storage mechanisms, and more

Windows Exploit Suggester - Next Generation

WES-NG is a tool based on the output of Windows' systeminfo utility which provides the list of vulnerabilities the OS is vulnerable to, including any exploits for these vulnerabilities. Every Windows OS between Windows XP and Windows 10, including their Windows Server counterparts, is supported

Sysinternals Suite

We will use several tools from Sysinternals in our enumeration including AccessChk, PipeList, and PsService

PowerUp

PowerSploit/PowerUp.ps1 at master · PowerShellMafia/PowerSploitGitHub

PowerUp: A Usage Guideharmj0y

PS C:\Users\Peter> Import-Module .\PowerUp.ps1
PS C:\Users\Peter> Invoke-AllChecks

SharpUp

GitHub - GhostPack/SharpUp: SharpUp is a C# port of various PowerUp functionality.GitHub

Ghostpack-CompiledBinaries/SharpUp.exe at master · r3motecontrol/Ghostpack-CompiledBinariesGitHub

SharpUp.exe audit
#-> Runs all vulnerability checks regardless of integrity level or group membership.

SharpUp.exe HijackablePaths
#-> Check only if there are modifiable paths in the user's %PATH% variable.

SharpUp.exe audit HijackablePaths
#-> Check only for modifiable paths in the user's %PATH% regardless of integrity level or group membership.