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Newly Patched Windows Zero-day Lets Hackers Take Complete Control of the Windows System

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Very recently patched Windows zero-day vulnerability (CVE-2019-0859) in win32k.sys let hackers take control of unpatched Windows systems.

Security researchers from Kaspersky team recent addressed this Zero-day vulnerability in win32k.sys while it made an attempt to exploit one of their customers Microsoft Windows operating system.

A Local Privilege Escalation vulnerability was then reported later to Microsoft and released a patch for Zero-day along with 74 other security vulnerabilities.

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This is actually the fifth vulnerability that consecutive exploited Local Privilege Escalation vulnerability in Windows that uncovered by Kaspersky team researchers, here the previous zero-days in very recent past.

Zero-day Exploit Process in Windows win32k.sys

This Vulnerability is presented in the CreateWindowEx, a function that
creates an overlapped, pop-up, or child window with an extended style.

Attackers Exploiting this elevation of privilege vulnerability in Windows when Win32k component fails to properly handle objects in memory.

A PowerShell script mainly used by attackers for the post-exploitation process with a Base64 encoded command. 

The ultimate goal of this PowerShell script to download a second-stage script from https//pastebin.com.

This Second stage of the PowerShell executes the final stage which is also a PowerShell Script that you can see in below image.

Windows Zero-day
Third stage PowerShell script

According to Kaspersky, the third script is very simple and does the following:

  • Unpacks shellcode
  • Allocates executable memory
  • Copies shellcode to the allocated memory
  • Calls CreateThread to execute shellcode

At the final stage, the shellcode is to make a trivial HTTP reverse shell that leads to attackers gain complete control of the targeted victims Windows system.

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Balaji
Balaji
BALAJI is an Ex-Security Researcher (Threat Research Labs) at Comodo Cybersecurity. Editor-in-Chief & Co-Founder - Cyber Security News & GBHackers On Security.

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