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# System prepended metadata

title: Administrator rights

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# Administrator rights


Large amount of data breaches involves the use of privileged credentials. The best practice is to assign permissions necessary for the specific user.

## Administrative account allows:
- Installation of unneccessary software.
- Executing potentially malicious programs
- Changing Operating system settings intentionally or unintentionally.

## Example scenario
Examples scenario is shown below. Screen capture from Win10(users machine) and Linux(scammers machine) are shown in the pictures.

- Win10 user downloads legimitate looking program from unknown source and proceeds to install it. Linux machine in the left is listening for incoming connections (Picture 1 & Picture 2.)

![](https://i.imgur.com/aXL0SXx.jpg)
#### Picture 1
![](https://i.imgur.com/CbqqBs0.jpg)
#### Picture 2
- Now the installation is completed and the program can be run (Picture 3).
![](https://i.imgur.com/2OYA5tJ.jpg)
#### Picture 3

- As shown in the picture 4, the installation process also executed a reverse https connection to the Linux machine allowing the Linux user access to the Win10 computer.
![](https://i.imgur.com/crnt1MH.jpg)
#### Picture 4









