privesc-windows

privesc-windows is a skill for Claude Code from hypnguyen1209/offensive-claude. It costs 81 tokens per session (3,183 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A Windows security guide for finding ways to move from a limited account to Administrator or the SYSTEM account. It covers service and DLL mistakes, token permissions, UAC, kernel vulnerabilities, and local credential storage.

In plain words
What is it for?
Reviewing Windows hosts after gaining access, including service accounts, impersonation privileges, UAC settings, scheduled tasks, vulnerable drivers, access tokens, LSASS, SAM, and DPAPI.
Why use it?
It gives security testers a structured way to identify weak permissions and unpatched components that could allow a local privilege increase or support movement to other systems.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the offensive-claude plugin — 30 skills, 18 commands, 8 agents, 1 hook shipped together

Good fit Reviewing Windows hosts after gaining access, including service accounts, impersonation privileges, UAC settings, scheduled tasks, vulnerable drivers, access tokens, LSASS, SAM, and DPAPI.

Compare 6 skills from other repositories ↓
Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/hypnguyen1209/offensive-claude/privesc-windows
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add hypnguyen1209/offensive-claude --skill privesc-windows
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/hypnguyen1209/offensive-claude

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install offensive-claude, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 30 skills, 18 commands, 8 agents, 1 hook.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for privesc-windows

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/hypnguyen1209/offensive-claude/privesc-windows/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/hypnguyen1209/offensive-claude/privesc-windows)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/hypnguyen1209/offensive-claude/privesc-windows"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/hypnguyen1209/offensive-claude/privesc-windows/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

agentmods 80×15 button for privesc-windows

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/hypnguyen1209/offensive-claude/privesc-windows"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/hypnguyen1209/offensive-claude/privesc-windows.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 81 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,183 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 3 findings, up to high

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • high YARA Match · line 7
    YARA rule matched a known malware signature (reverse shell, backdoor, ransomware, C2 framework, or info stealer).
    Fix: Remove the malware payload or compromised file entirely. Investigate how it entered the skill and audit all other artifacts for additional indicators of compromise.
  • high YARA Match · line 7
    YARA rule matched a hack tool or exploit indicator (offensive tools, reconnaissance, privilege escalation, or exploit frameworks).
    Fix: Remove offensive tool references and exploit code. Legitimate agent skills should not contain penetration testing tools, exploit frameworks, or reconnaissance utilities.
  • high YARA Match · line 7
    YARA rule matched a hack tool or exploit indicator (offensive tools, reconnaissance, privilege escalation, or exploit frameworks).
    Fix: Remove offensive tool references and exploit code. Legitimate agent skills should not contain penetration testing tools, exploit frameworks, or reconnaissance utilities.
How audits are shown
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00081 $0.03183
Opus 5 $0.00041 $0.01591
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.00637
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00318

Measured 12d ago against content hash a11d2912b257, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

privesc-windows scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 12d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 4 executable files (scripts/check_potato.py, scripts/service_hijack_audit.ps1, scripts/uac_bypass.ps1, …), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

skills/privesc-windows/SKILL.md · 123 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 123 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Windows Privilege Escalation

When to Activate

  • Gained an initial shell / foothold on Windows and need to reach Administrator or NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM
  • Shell runs as a service account (IIS APPPOOL, MSSQL, Local/Network Service) holding SeImpersonatePrivilege
  • Standard-user → admin via UAC bypass (medium → high integrity) on a local-admin-group member
  • Service / DLL / scheduled-task misconfiguration hunting on the host
  • Kernel EoP via an unpatched local CVE or Bring-Your-Own-Vulnerable-Driver (admin → kernel/PPL)
  • Privileged token-right abuse (SeBackup/SeRestore/SeTakeOwnership/SeLoadDriver/SeDebug)
  • Local credential harvesting (LSASS, SAM/SYSTEM, DPAPI) to fuel lateral movement

Technique Map

Technique ATT&CK CWE Reference Script
Automated enumeration (winPEAS/Seatbelt/PrivescCheck) T1082, T1518 CWE-1188 references/enumeration-triage.md scripts/win_privesc_triage.ps1
Token-privilege triage + FullPowers recovery T1134.001 CWE-269 references/enumeration-triage.md scripts/win_privesc_triage.ps1
SeImpersonate Potato (GodPotato/SigmaPotato/PrintNotify) T1134.001, T1134.002 CWE-269 references/token-impersonation-potatoes.md scripts/check_potato.py
Named-pipe / token impersonation primitives T1134.001 CWE-269 references/token-impersonation-potatoes.md scripts/check_potato.py
Unquoted service path T1574.009 CWE-428 references/service-dll-hijacking.md scripts/service_hijack_audit.ps1
Weak service ACL / SERVICE_CHANGE_CONFIG T1543.003 CWE-732 references/service-dll-hijacking.md scripts/service_hijack_audit.ps1
DLL / phantom DLL hijack (CVE-2025-1729, CVE-2024-28827) T1574.001, T1574.010 CWE-427 references/service-dll-hijacking.md scripts/service_hijack_audit.ps1
UAC bypass — fodhelper/computerdefaults/eventvwr T1548.002 CWE-269 references/uac-bypass.md scripts/uac_bypass.ps1
UAC bypass — ICMLuaUtil / IEditionUpgradeManager COM T1548.002 CWE-269 references/uac-bypass.md scripts/uac_bypass.ps1
AlwaysInstallElevated MSI T1548.002 CWE-250 references/uac-bypass.md scripts/uac_bypass.ps1
Kernel EoP CVE (CLFS CVE-2025-29824/32701; CVE-2025-62215) T1068 CWE-416, CWE-362 references/kernel-byovd.md scripts/byovd_loader.c
BYOVD admin→kernel / EDR-blind (CVE-2025-7771, EDRSandblast) T1068, T1562.001 CWE-782 references/kernel-byovd.md scripts/byovd_loader.c
Privileged token rights (SeBackup/SeRestore/SeLoadDriver/SeDebug) T1134, T1068 CWE-269 references/kernel-byovd.md scripts/byovd_loader.c
LSASS dump (comsvcs / PssCaptureSnapshot / nanodump) T1003.001 CWE-522 references/credential-harvesting.md -
SAM/SYSTEM + VSS offline secretsdump T1003.002 CWE-522 references/credential-harvesting.md -
DPAPI / credential vault / browser secrets T1555.004, T1555.003 CWE-522 references/credential-harvesting.md -

Read the full file on GitHub · 123 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 12d ago First seen · 123 lines · 81 tokens per session scan A a11d2912b257

Subscribe to this mod's changes

privesc-windows is a skill published in the GitHub repository hypnguyen1209/offensive-claude (360 stars, last pushed 26d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 81 tokens to every session and 3,183 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

Related

Other skills, from other repositories

bt6-queue-audit

Audit the full pull-request and issue queue of a BT6 research or support repository, classifying readiness, evidence risk, and next action without mutating tracker state.

elder-plinius/T3MP3ST · 40 tokens

bt6-issue-steward

Triage and steward issues in BT6 research and support repositories, deciding whether to answer, reproduce, correct evidence, link work, design a feature, route security, implement, or close.

elder-plinius/T3MP3ST · 46 tokens

bt6-merge-train

Run an explicitly authorized, conservative BT6 merge train that processes validated pull requests one at a time and reconciles repository, CI, evidence, and issue state after each merge.

elder-plinius/T3MP3ST · 42 tokens

bt6-pr-audit

Audit one pull request in a BT6 research or support repository at an exact head SHA, covering correctness, research integrity, security, tests, contracts, and merge readiness.

elder-plinius/T3MP3ST · 40 tokens

bt6-provider-review

Audit an external AI/API provider and its integration into a BT6 repository for service reality, independent verification, trust boundaries, secret handling, API/model correctness, completeness, claim traceability, and merge readiness.

elder-plinius/T3MP3ST · 46 tokens

xiaohongshu-search-full

Search Xiaohongshu (XHS / RedNote) notes by keyword with full field extraction including body text, topics/tags, image list URLs, video stream URL, publish timestamp, and all engagement stats (likes, collects, comments, shares). Supports all page filter options: sort order (general, latest, most liked, most commented…

browser-act/skills · 254 tokens