Application Shimming
Adversaries may establish persistence and/or elevate privileges by executing malicious content triggered by application shims. The Microsoft Windows Application Compatibility Infrastructure/Framework (Application Shim) was created to allow for backward compatibility of software as the operating system codebase changes over time. For example, the application shimming feature allows developers to apply fixes to applications (without rewriting code) that were created for Windows XP so that it will ...
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Auto-extracted: 3 detections for registry monitoring
Auto-extracted: 2 detections for privilege
Auto-extracted: 2 detections for api
Auto-extracted: 1 detections for bypass
Auto-extracted: 1 detections for privilege
Auto-extracted: 1 detections for process creation monitoring
Auto-extracted: 1 detections for api