I as the user, am trying to add myself to local administrator group on the box

Question

so im working out an exercise and wanted to ask what possible avenues there were to do this (preferably through powershell v2)

I have tried the following from a batch file casually written: C:\windows\system32\windowspowershell\v1.0\powershell.exe " net localgroup Administrators test1 /add -force

so that doesn't work, ill get an "access denied" and I'm not sure how to jump that authorization.

Answer 1

If you're not logged on as a user that has administrator rights on the computer, you can't upgrade yourself. Only an administrator can. If there were a way for you to do it, it would completely defeat the purpose of having the controls in the first place.

Even the malware exploits that grant an "outsider" administrator-level access to your computer rely on an unknowledgeable user doing all of their routine work in an Administrator account, and then "social-engineering" the user into running the exploit with admin privileges.