Phorplex malware suffers from an insecure permissions vulnerability that can allow for privilege escalation.
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Discovery / credits: malvuln - Malvuln.com (c) 2021
Original source: http://malvuln.com/advisory/f4d7d721f68bc9a80aaf53bc184a3c58.txt
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Threat: Phorpiex
Vulnerability: Insecure permissions EoP
Description: Change permissions are granted to authenticated users on the dir housing the malware.
Type: PE32
MD5: f4d7d721f68bc9a80aaf53bc184a3c58
Vuln ID: MVID-2021-0007
Dropped files: svchost.exe
Disclosure: 01/02/2021
Exploit/PoC:
c:\>cacls C:\11973197639004\svchost.exe
C:\11973197639004\svchost.exe BUILTIN\Administrators:(ID)F
NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM:(ID)F
BUILTIN\Users:(ID)R
NT AUTHORITY\Authenticated Users:(ID)C
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