Re: Windows Platform Binary Table (WPBT) - BIOS PE backdoor

[Kevin Beaumont <kevin.beaumont () gmail com>]

Hi - just with regards to this, the issue of Windows Server 2003
allowing driver injection is only during initial Windows setup.  Just
to be clear the issue I was highlighting is a different beast, as it
is every boot, with file system mounted.

On 12 August 2015 at 18:33, Stefan Kanthak <stefan.kanthak () nexgo de> wrote:
> "Kevin Beaumont" <kevin.beaumont () gmail com> wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> > Microsoft documented a feature in Windows 8 and above called Windows
> > Platform Binary Table.
>
> Cf. <http://www.acpi.info/links.htm> where WPBT is linked to
> <http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/p/?LinkId=234840> alias
> <https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-US/library/windows/hardware/dn550976>
>
> > Up until two days ago, this was a single Word
> > document not referenced elsewhere on Google:
> http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:H-SSYRAB0usJ:download.microsoft.com/download/8/A/2/8A2FB72D-9B96-4E2D-A559-4A27CF905A80/windows-platform-binary-table.docx+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us
> > This feature allows a BIOS to deliver the payload of an executable,
> > which is run in memory, silently, each time a system is booted.  The
> > executable code is run under under Session Manager context (i.e.
> > SYSTEM).
>
> This sort of feature is NOT new: with Windows 2003 Microsoft introduced
> the loading of "virtual OEM device drivers" during Windows setup, see
> <https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/896453>
>
> AFAIK at least HP and Dell used this method to deploy [F6] drivers
> embedded in their BIOS.
>
> [...]
>
> stay tuned
> Stefan Kanthak