Persistence and LOLBins

Grzegorz/@0gtweet tweeted something recently that I thought was fascinating, suggesting that a Registry modification might be considered an LOLBin. What he shared was pretty interesting, so I tried it out.

First, the Registry modification:

reg add "HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Terminal Server\Utilities\query" /v LOLBin /t REG_MULTI_SZ /d 0\01\0LOLBin\0calc.exe

Then the command to launch calc.exe:

query LOLBin

Now, I've tried this on a Windows 10 system and it works great, even though Terminal Services isn't actually running on this system. Running just the "query" command …

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