{PRL} Rising Antivirus 2009 Privilege Escalation

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Application:  Rising Antivirus 2009
            
Platforms:    Windows XP Professional SP2

Exploitation: Privilege Escalation

Date:         2009-10-26

Author:       Francis Provencher (Protek Research Lab's) 

          
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1) Introduction
2) Technical details
3) The Code (N/A)


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1) Introduction
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 Rising Antivirus 2009

Protects your computers against all types of viruses, Trojans, Worms, Rootkits and other malicious programs. Ease of use, Active Defense technology, Patented Unknown Virus Scan&Clean technology and Patented Smartupdate technology make RISING Antivirus ' install-and-forget ' product that lets you focus on what you really want to do.

(from Rising Anti-virus website)


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2) Technical details 
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Rising Antivirus 2009
Build 21.28.32

All files under the install folder have Full control for BUILTIN\users and can be replace with malicious files.

... snip ...

C:\Program Files\Rising\Rav\RavTask.exe BUILTIN\Utilisateurs:F
                                        BUILTIN\Utilisateurs avec pouvoir:C
                                        BUILTIN\Administrateurs:F
                                        AUTORITE NT\SYSTEM:F
                                        FUZZYXP\francis:F
... snip ...

C:\>WHOAMI.EXE
FUZZYXP\francis

C:\>telnet 127.0.0.1 4444


C:\>WHOAMI.EXE
WHOAMI.EXE
AUTORITE NT\SYSTEM





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3) The Code
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N\A


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(PRL-2009-13)




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