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Sharlene Bluestein <[email protected]> Sat, 20 Jan 2024 03:01:23 -0800 (PST)
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<div>For older Windows machines such as Windows XP Professional, whoami is not found (e.g. HTB's Legacy). I understand that we are able to run a whoami.exe that is found on our machine to confirm that we are SYSTEM.</div><div></div><div></div><div>The following table contains possible examples of whoami.exe being misused. While whoami.exe is not inherently malicious, its legitimate functionality can be abused for malicious purposes.</div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div>whoami.exe download windows xp</div><div></div><div>Download Zip: https://t.co/cSPlMDj7ds </div><div></div><div></div><div>after much digging about and turning on process & command auditing, I found it's Filr doing it. It launches "whoami.exe /groups", which then seems to launch conhost.exe (presumably doing something with the output of the whoami command). indeed it does do it every 30 minutes exactly.</div><div></div><div></div><div>Bitdefender's Advanced Threat Defense keeps blocking "whoami.exe" and is doing this every 4 minutes throughout today. The software states that whoami.exe is blocked and disinfection successful but I keep getting this every 4 minutes.</div><div></div><div></div><div>I don't think we will be able to resolve this on the forum, because we don't know exactly why the notification behaves this way and what whoami.exe is doing. The engineers may also request logs from the device for accurate diagnosis.</div><div></div><div></div><div>There are various suggestions on how to determine the current username on a windows command shell without using whoami, such as this question or this question. The generic answer seems to be echo %username%. However, when I do this (on Windows XP), the shell answers with %username%. Am I missing something?</div><div></div><div></div><div>In an example similar to the one you are in.. Here I have logged into the machine remotely, it runs bvsshserver (bitvise ssh server aka winsshd) (which when logged into even from cygwin client, will give a windows command line) though openssh server via cygwin gives bash.. You can use the openssh client in cygwin to log into bitvise sshd and get a windows command line</div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div>Grab a copy of Sysinternals Process Explorer and look at the security tab for a non-elevated process, is your group still being filtered out? I ask because apparently Whoami.exe is known to be buggy since Vista and up to at least the Windows 8 Release Preview (see Case of the unexplained: whoami.exe and the Deny flag).</div><div></div><div></div><div>This has been doable for well before PowerShell ever existed (including using legacy tools other than whoami.exe; WMIC, VBScript and WMI, ADSI), and even when it (Powershell) was there are articles from Microsoft folks/types showing this as far back as PowerShellv2 and beyond.</div><div></div><div></div><div>Latest comment from Support asked us to disable "Collect HIP Data", this will prevent the whoami.exe process. However, I replied informing them that we are not able to disable the HIP Data collection as this would also remove the HIP-based policy enforcement we are using (which is the reason why Collect HIP Data is enabled in the first place: GlobalProtect Portals Agent HIP Data Collection Tab).</div><div></div><div></div><div>I have given the following gants for permission and calling CMD.EXE appears to work. However, I cannot get any output from whoami.exe. I can see that the default directory is C:\app\oramgr\product\12.1.0\dbhome_1\database\ that appears in the JJJ.TXT file. However, the JJJ_WHOAMI.TXT file contains nothing. Any suggestions?</div><div></div><div></div><div>I had a laptop with windows 8 and upgraded to windows 10. I kept hearing the fan go rev up when the system was idle. When I look at the task manager, I noticed that the process "system and compressed memory" was running at 20%. Looking on the web, I saw one spot where they suggested changing the Virtual Memory Settings from Automatic to a fixed size. That seemed to work a little, but I found another posting that said it was the Memory Diagnostics. I disabled this in the Task Scheduler, and it seemed to quiet the system down.</div><div></div><div></div><div>Do you miss the Windows Briefcase functionality to keep data synced between 2 folders, like thumb drive and desktop? You can restore that function by using the windows registry settings as seen below. This can be copied/pasted into a .REG file that you can import. It is supoosed to work on Windows 8 & 10. Source: -to-add-the-briefcase-feature-in-windows-10/</div><div></div><div></div><div>Accesschk.exe is a windows sysinternals tool that can be used to check your access to various windows resources, such as files, services or directories. While this tool may already live on the machine, in order to run it in command-line only mode, an older version is required.</div><div></div><div></div><div>Each service on a windows machine has an ACL (Access Control List) which defines certain service-specific permissions. If our user has the following ACL permissions, then we should be able to escalate our privileges.</div><div></div><div></div><div>This is a problem because executable files in Windows can be run without using their extension (e.g. whoami.exe can be run by just typing whoami) and some executables take arguments, separated by spaces, e.g. someprogram.exe arg1 arg2.</div><div></div><div></div><div>The windows registry stores entries for each service. Since registry entries can have ACLs, if the ACL is incorrectly configured, it may be possible to modify a service's configuration, even if we cannot modify the service directly.</div><div></div><div></div><div>The malicious files can set its dwelling into various directories. You have to manually follow the susceptive paths and delete the malicious whoami.exe and whoami.dll one after another. The paths should be followed:</div><div></div><div></div><div>Congratulations! Now, you have successfully eradicated the infected executable file. Always remember that the genuine file of whoami.exe in Windows 10 is a vital command-line utility. So, before removing it from your computer, be 100% sure that you are removing the culprit one. You can easily differentiate the fake and legitimate whoami.exe by its directory. The authorized one is always located in C:\Windows\System32.</div><div></div><div></div><div>Do you know virus inventors have added malicious code into the whoami.exe file and launched it on the internet with only one motto; harm your computer and fetch all your important details. To easily identify the infected command-line utility, note that its MD5 value is 26e6441983a3b98fb2b32d8a0c78050b and size of file is 69 KB (70,656 bytes). Without going much into details, you should understand that whoami.exe (the malicious one) can harm your computer too much. To get a rescue from this, scan your full system with Windows Defender.</div><div></div><div> df19127ead</div>