---
id: 8731
title: "A Shadow of our Former Self"
source_domain: projectzero.google
source_url: "https://projectzero.google/2016/08/a-shadow-of-our-former-self.html"
published_at: "2016-08-16T00:00:00Z"
tags: ["sandbox-escape", "windows", "exploitation", "mitigation-bypass", "symbolic-links"]
phying_url: "https://phying.com/item/8731"
lang: en
---

# A Shadow of our Former Self

## Summary

An exploration of Windows symbolic link mitigations, presenting a technique introduced in Windows 8 that restores part of the symbolic link capability available to sandboxed processes.

## Intelligence Metadata

- **Sources:** projectzero.google
- **Published:** 2016-08-16T00:00:00Z
- **Original:** https://projectzero.google/2016/08/a-shadow-of-our-former-self.html
- **Phying News:** https://phying.com/item/8731