Hacking Windows TrustedInstaller (GOD MODE)
Source: YouTube · John Hammond · published Jul 15, 2024 · 31:09
The Windows Trusted Installer is a service account with higher privileges than administrators that controls system files, and this video explains multiple techniques to gain its permissions 0:00, 3:24.
Key Takeaways:
• Even administrators cannot delete Windows system files because they are protected by the Trusted Installer, which has exclusive ownership permissions 0:30, 3:45.
• Trusted Installer is not a user account but a Windows service with a unique security identifier (SID) that can be examined using PowerShell 4:57, 6:19.
• One method to gain Trusted Installer privileges involves modifying its service binary path to run custom commands, though this approach has limitations 7:55, 14:29.
• A more reliable technique uses the NT object manager PowerShell module to create a new process with Trusted Installer as the parent, inheriting its permissions 21:35.
• Advanced users can impersonate the Trusted Installer token directly in their current session using undocumented API calls and the SE debug privilege 24:04.
Multiple tools and methods exist for gaining Trusted Installer permissions, including specialized utilities and programming libraries in various languages 27:51.
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have you ever seen the windows trusted installer account maybe sometime in the past you've wanted to remove some programs or applications that you felt like you didn't need or didn't want on your Windows computer so you'd navigate to the root of the file system see colon back slash maybe dig into the program files where you can see all the programs installed and say if you wanted to just manually remove one of these hey rip it out and try to delete something like Windows Media Player as an example fire to try and rightclick and delete this I'll get an error it says you need permission to perform this action and you need permission from The Trusted installer you could try this over and over and over again but you still need permission and you might be thinking what the heck look I'm the adm…