examples:

• description: "Place malicious esent.dll in the search order location" command: "copy malicious.dll "%SYSTEM32%\esent.dll""
• description: "Execute the vulnerable binary to trigger the hijack" command: ""%SYSTEM32%\dfsrdiag.exe""

esent.dll

Vendor: Microsoft

Expected Location: %SYSTEM32%

Vulnerable Executables:

• %SYSTEM32%\dfsrdiag.exe (Sideloading)
• %SYSTEM32%\dsdbutil.exe (Sideloading)
• %SYSTEM32%\esentutl.exe (Sideloading)
• %SYSTEM32%\tieringengineservice.exe (Sideloading)
• %SYSTEM32%\ntdsutil.exe (Sideloading)

Acknowledgement: Wietze

Acknowledgement: Chris Spehn