You can find another variant of this program which doesn't requires Networking function and also compatible with any application like Netcat, Telnet etc... here : https://github.com/DarkCoderSc/run-as-attached-local

RunAsAttached (Local) version is more stable.

The goal of Networked version was to demonstrate inter-process communication using Socket programming.

RunAsAttached is a program to run a console as another user and keep new console attached to caller console. Support reverse shell mode (Ex: Netcat)

• First release

• Major bug fixed when using Netcat / Telnet etc..
• Stability improved

Unlike on UNIX based systems, on Microsoft Windows you can't run command as another user without spawning a new process then a new console window.

This is quite annoying while doing Penetration Testing but not only!

This application is a "hack" to run a new console attached to callers console. This is one method to achieve that goal.

This method is using Client / Server architecture to communicate between two processes. By default it will create a local server (listening on localhost and random port above 50 000) but you can decided to connect back to another address/port (Ex: a Netcat listener)

It is a beta release, it is working fine, but many things requires some optimization including:

• Networking: This is the first technique that comes to my mind for different reasons, I will dig more about a better way. The main issue encoutered is related to disconnection. If remote conection is unexpectly (dirty) closed, it may not know about that, this is mainly because of the way I designed how I handled both Stdout/Stderr and Networking. I have some good ideas to solve that issue. It is still considered as minor, could be annoying tho.

• Argument Parsing: I will enhance the clarity of that part.

Even if you don't find useful this program, you may find some interesting piece of codes:

• Winsock2 Programming
• Global Mutex (Cross Users)
• Threading
• Windows API
• Pipes