Want to bypass UAC prompt & move the file to system32

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trying to move file as administrator & bypass the UAC prompt

What I have tried:

echo
if not "%1"=="am_admin" (
powershell -Command "Start-Process -Verb RunAs -FilePath '%0' -ArgumentList 'am_admin'"
exit /b
)

move C:\Users\BDAS\Desktop\hosts*.* C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc
del %0

Posted 23-Apr-22 0:38am

mahabir das

Updated 23-Apr-22 0:58am

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OriginalGriff · Answer 1 · 2022-04-23T00:53:00

Solution 1

You cannot "bypass the UAC prompt" - there would be no security at all if you could do that as the user would not be involved in the promotion.

It's called "User Access Control" for a good reason - the user must consent to the access change.

Posted 23-Apr-22 0:53am

OriginalGriff

Richard MacCutchan · Answer 2 · 2022-04-23T00:58:00

You cannot do this in Python (Want to modify hosts file as administrator in Python[^]), Java (Want to move file using core javascript(not node js)[^]), or Powershell (this question) unless you are allowed to run with Administrator privileges. And any attempt to bypass the UAC prompt suggests that this is illegal activity.

Michael Haephrati · Answer 3 · 2023-10-14T09:14:00

User Access Control, by design, should not be bypassed, otherwise, what's the point of having it in the first place?
There are ways to bypass User Access control. All of them are based on Windows vulnerabilities which are exploited. Thankfully most of them were patched in recent years, but not all of them. The following repo is a serious security set of POCs, published so Microsoft can patch these exploits.

GitHub - hfiref0x/UACME: Defeating Windows User Account Control[^]

I tested method 61 and it worked.
Just compile and open CMD (not as Administrator) and type:

akagi32 61 <your program or batch file that requires Administrator privileges>

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