---
id: 5990
title: "Active Directory Security: Abusing Display Specifiers"
source_domain: semperis.com
source_url: "https://www.semperis.com/blog/active-directory-security-abusing-display-specifiers/"
published_at: "2021-05-20T19:53:23Z"
tags: ["active-directory", "privilege-escalation", "attack-technique", "persistence", "display-specifiers", "aduc"]
phying_url: "https://phying.com/item/5990"
lang: en
---

# Active Directory Security: Abusing Display Specifiers

## Summary

Researcher revisits Display Specifiers—an AD feature adding custom context menus to MMC tools like ADUC. Abusing it requires Domain Admin rights, yet it provides attackers a stealthy persistence path, since admin actions are rarely scrutinized.

## Intelligence Metadata

- **Sources:** semperis.com
- **Published:** 2021-05-20T19:53:23Z
- **Original:** https://www.semperis.com/blog/active-directory-security-abusing-display-specifiers/
- **Phying News:** https://phying.com/item/5990