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This is part 3 in a short series on the internals of AppLocker (AL). Part 1 is here, part 2 here and part 4 here.Windows AppLocker is a feature of Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 that lets administrators control what types of programs are allowed to run on users' PCs. AppLocker can be centrally managed by configuring Group Policy and has several benefits, including preventing users from installing unauthorized applications and preventing certain kinds of malware from installing in an environment. AppLocker.Setup.zip File version: 1.3.0.15 Last modified: Aug 12, 2014 Download mirrors: 4 Virus/malware test: Virus-free Operating system: For Windows 10, Windows 8, Windows 7 32-bit / 64-bit Software rating: 2.6 / 5.
In the last part I outlined how process creation is blocked with AL. I crucially left out exactly how the rules are processed to determine if a particular user was allowed to create a process. As it makes more sense to do so, we're going to go in reverse order from how the process was described in the last post. Let's start with talking about the access check implemented by SrppAccessCheck.
Access Checking and Security Descriptors
- A SECURITY_SUBJECT_CONTEXT which identifies the caller's access tokens.
- A desired access mask.
- A GENERIC_MAPPING structure which allows the access check to convert generic access to object specific access rights.
- And most importantly, the Security Descriptor which describes the security of the resource being checked.
SECURITY_SUBJECT_CONTEXT Subject = {};
ObReferenceObjectByHandle(TokenHandle, &Subject.PrimaryToken);
DWORD SecurityOffset = *((DWORD*)Policy+4)
PSECURITY_DESCRIPTOR SD = Policy + SecurityOffset;
NTSTATUS AccessStatus;
if (!SeSrpAccessCheck(&Subject, FILE_EXECUTE,
&FileGenericMapping,
SD, &AccessStatus) &&
AccessStatus STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED) {
return STATUS_ACCESS_DISABLED_BY_POLICY_OTHER;
}
return AccessStatus;
}
The code isn't very complex, first it builds a SECURITY_SUBJECT_CONTEXT structure manually from the access token passed in as a handle. It uses a policy pointer passed in to find the security descriptor it wants to use for the check. Finally a call is made to SeSrpAccessCheck requesting file execute access. If the check fails with an access denied error it gets converted to the AL specific policy error, otherwise any other success or failure is returned.
The only thing we don't really know in this process is what the Policy value is and therefore what the security descriptor is. We could trace through the code to find how the Policy value is set , but sometimes it's just easier to breakpoint on the function of interest in a kernel debugger and dump the pointed at memory. Taking the debugging approach shows the following:
Well, what do we have here? We've seen those first 4 characters before, it's the magic signature of the on-disk policy files from part 1. SeSrpAccessCheck is extracting a value from offset 16, which is used as an offset into the same buffer to get the security descriptor. Maybe the policy files already contain the security descriptor we seek? Writing some quick PowerShell I ran it on the Exe.AppLocker policy file to see the result:
If we run Format-AppLockerSecurityDescriptor on the Exe.Applocker file we get the following output for the DACL (trimmed for brevity):
- Type : AllowedCallback
- Name : Everyone
- Access: Execute|ReadAttributes|ReadControl|Synchronize
- Condition: APPID://PATH Contains '%WINDIR%*'
- Type : AllowedCallback
- Name : BUILTINAdministrators
- Access: Execute|ReadAttributes|ReadControl|Synchronize
- Condition: APPID://PATH Contains '*'
- Type : AllowedCallback
If we run Format-AppLockerSecurityDescriptor on the Exe.Applocker file we get the following output for the DACL (trimmed for brevity):
- Type : AllowedCallback
- Name : Everyone
- Access: Execute|ReadAttributes|ReadControl|Synchronize
- Condition: APPID://PATH Contains '%WINDIR%*'
- Type : AllowedCallback
- Name : BUILTINAdministrators
- Access: Execute|ReadAttributes|ReadControl|Synchronize
- Condition: APPID://PATH Contains '*'
- Type : AllowedCallback
- Name : Everyone
- Access: Execute|ReadAttributes|ReadControl|Synchronize
- Condition: APPID://PATH Contains '%PROGRAMFILES%*'
- Type : Allowed
- Name : APPLICATION PACKAGE AUTHORITYALL APPLICATION PACKAGES
- Access: Execute|ReadAttributes|ReadControl|Synchronize
- Type : Allowed
- Name : APPLICATION PACKAGE AUTHORITYALL RESTRICTED APPLICATION PACKAGES
- Access: Execute|ReadAttributes|ReadControl|Synchronize
We can see we have two ACEs which are for the Everyone group and one for the Administrators group. This matches up with the default configuration we setup in part 1. The last two entries are just there to ensure this access check works correctly when run from an App Container.
The most interesting part is the Condition field. This is a rarely used (at least for consumer version of the OS) feature of the security access checking in the kernel which allows a conditional expression evaluated to determine if an ACE is enabled or not. In this case we're seeing the SDDL format (documentation) but under the hood it's actually a binary structure. If we assume that the '*' acts as a globbing character then again this matches our rules, which let's remember:
- Allow Everyone group access to run any executable under %WINDIR% and %PROGRAMFILES%.
- Allow Administrators group to run any executable from anywhere.
In fact let's add policy entries for a hash and publisher and see what condition is set for them. Download a new policy file from this link and run the Set-AppLockerPolicy command in an admin PowerShell console. Then re-run Format-ApplockerSecurityDescriptor:
- Type : AllowedCallback
- Name : Everyone
- Access: Execute|ReadAttributes|ReadControl|Synchronize
- Condition: (Exists APPID://SHA256HASH) && (APPID://SHA256HASH Any_of {#5bf6ccc91dd715e18d6769af97dd3ad6a15d2b70326e834474d952753
118c670})
- Type : AllowedCallback
- Name : Everyone
- Access: Execute|ReadAttributes|ReadControl|Synchronize
- Flags : None
- Condition: (Exists APPID://FQBN) && (APPID://FQBN >= {'O=MICROSOFT CORPORATION, L=REDMOND, S=WASHINGTON, C=USMICROSOFT® WINDOWS
® OPERATING SYSTEM*', 0})
We can now see the two new conditional ACEs, for a SHA256 hash and the publisher subject name. Basically rinse and repeat as more rules and conditions are added to the policy they'll be added to the security descriptor with the appropriate ACEs. Note that the ordering of the rules are very important, for example Deny ACEs will always go first. I assume the policy file generation code correctly handles the security descriptor generation, but you can now audit it to make sure.
While we now understand how the rules are enforced, where does the values for the condition, such as APPID://PATH come from? If you read the (poor) documentation about conditional ACEs you'll find these values are Security Attributes. The attributes can be either globally defined or assigned to an access token. Each attribute has a name, then a list of one or more values which can be strings, integers, binary blobs etc. This is what AL is using to store the data in the access check token.
Let's go back a step and see what's going on with AiSetAttributesExe to see how these security attributes are generated.
Setting Token Attributes
- A handle to the executable file.
- Pointer to the current policy.
- Handle to the primary token of the new process.
- Handle to the token used for the access check.
- %WINDIR% - Windows Folder.
- %SYSTEM32% - Both System32 and SysWOW64 (on x64).
- %PROGRAMFILES% - Both Program Files and Program Files (x86).
- %OSDRIVE% - The OS install drive.
- %REMOVABLE% - Removable drive, such a CD or DVD.
- %HOT% - Hot-pluggable devices such as USB keys.
- APPID://SHA256HASH - Authenticode SHA256.
- APPID://SHA1HASH - Authenticode SHA1
- APPID://SHA256FLATHASH - SHA256 over entire file.
The Mystery of the Twin Tokens
- If the token is a non-elevated (UAC) token then use the full elevated token.
- If the token is 'restricted' and not a UAC token then use the logon session token.
- Otherwise use the primary token of the new process.
Case 2 is also interesting, a 'restricted' token in this case is one which has been passed through the CreateRestrictedToken API and has restricted SIDs attached. This is used by various sandboxes especially Chromium's (and by extension anyone who uses it such as Firefox). Case 2 ensures that if the process token is restricted and therefore might not pass the access check, say the Everyone group is disabled, then the access check is done instead against the logon session's token, which is the master token from which all others are derived in a logon session.
If nothing else matches then case 3 kicks in and just assigns the primary token to the AccessCheckToken. There are edges cases in these rules. For example you can use CreateRestrictedToken to create a new access token with disabled groups, but which doesn't have restricted SIDs. This results in case 2 not being applied and so the access check is done against the limited token which could very easily fail to validate causing the process to be terminated.
There's also a more subtle edge case here if you look back at the code. If you create a restricted token of a UAC admin token then process creation typically fails during the policy check. When the UAC token is a full admin token the second call to ZwQueryInformationToken will not be made which results in NewToken being NULL. However in the final check, IsRestricted is TRUE so the second condition is checked, as status is STATUS_SUCCESS (from the first call to ZwQueryInformationToken) this passes and we enter the if block without ever calling SeGetLogonSessionToken. As NewToken is still NULL AccessCheckToken is set to the primary process token which is the restricted token which will cause the subsequent access check to fail. This is actually a long standing bug in Chromium, it can't be run as UAC admin if AppLocker is enforced.
That's the end of how AL does process enforcement. Hopefully it's been helpful. Next time I'll dig into how DLL enforcement works.
Locking Resources to Specific Processes
Set-NtSecurityDescriptor ??C:TEMPABC.TXT `
-SecurityDescriptor 'D:(XA;;GA;;;WD;(APPID://PATH Contains '%SYSTEM32%NOTEPAD.EXE'))' `
-SecurityInformation Dacl
Make sure that the path is in all upper case. You should now find that while PowerShell (or any other application) can't open the text file you can open and modify it just fine in notepad. Of course this won't work across network boundaries and is pretty easy to get around, but that's not my problem ;-)
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Restricting users from running applications does have significant costs, however, andfor many organizations, those costs outweigh the benefits. IT has to test each applicationand create a rule that allows users to run it. Inevitably, users will be prevented from runninglegitimate applications, which can reduce their productivity while they wait for IT to approvea new application. Sometimes, users will choose to work around IT by running applications onnon-IT computers. Each time an application is updated, IT needs to again test and approvethe application.
Windows 7 includes AppLocker, which is an update to Software Restriction Policies, a featurein earlier versions of Windows. With Software Restriction Policies, IT professionals couldcreate rules such as 'Trust all content signed by Microsoft,' 'Trust this single executable file,'or 'Trust the file at this path.' With AppLocker, IT professionals can create more refined rulesbased on an application's metadata, such as 'Trust Microsoft Office if it is signed and the versionis greater than 12.0.0.0.' Additionally, AppLocker rules can be assigned on a per-groupand per-user basis.
Table lists the differences between Software Restriction Policies and AppLocker
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Software Restriction Policies Compared to AppLocker
Feature | Software Restriction Policies | Applocker |
Conditions | Hash, path, certificate, registry path, and Internet zone | Hash, path, and publisher |
Rule scope | All users | All users, or specific users and groups |
Audit-only mode | No | Yes |
Automatically generate rules | No | Yes |
Policy import and export No | No | Yes |
Windows PowerShell support | No | Yes |
Custom error messages | No | Yes |
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AppLocker is available only in Windows 7 Enterprise and Windows 7 Ultimate Editions. Youcan use Windows 7 Professional Edition to create AppLocker rules, but the rules will not beenforced on the computer running Windows 7 Professional. You must configure the ApplicationIdentity service to start for Windows 7 to apply AppLocker rules; by default, it is configured tostart manually.
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The sections that follow provide more detailed information about how to configure, test,and manage AppLocker.