~/Privilege Escalation/Windows/Binaries# cat Explorer.exe.md

Binary used for managing files and system components within Windows

Paths:

C:\Windows\explorer.exe
C:\Windows\SysWOW64\explorer.exe

Detection: Multiple instances of explorer.exe or explorer.exe using the /root command line can help to detect this.

Execute

Execute calc.exe with the parent process spawning from a new instance of explorer.exe

explorer.exe /root,"C:\Windows\System32\calc.exe"

Execute calc.exe with the parent process spawning from a new instance of explorer.exe

explorer.exe C:\Windows\System32\notepad.exe