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LOLBINed — Abusing Sysinternals BgInfo

In 2017 Oddvar Moe published a blog post on how he was able to use BgInfo to bypass application whitelisting. This finding is documented on LOLBAS and it still works today.

https://lolbas-project.github.io/lolbas/OtherMSBinaries/Bginfo/

While looking at this Lolbin this past week. I found that you can achieve the same effect by using the registry instead of a “.bgi” file.

Note: for a better reading experience its best to give Oddvar’s blog a read and then …

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