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Hack-cessibility: When DLL Hijacks Meet Windows Helpers

ID: 9ce407ce-5dda-5219-b023-1b4fce1984bd

STIX ID: report--9ce407ce-5dda-5219-b023-1b4fce1984bd

Feed Name: TrustedSec blog

Threat Score
55/100

Date Published: 2025-11-25

Date Updated: 2026-05-01

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This research demonstrates how Windows Narrator loads a TTS DLL (`msttsloc_onecoreenus.dll`) and how an attacker with local administrator privileges can plant a malicious DLL to achieve code execution. The author shows techniques to suspend Narrator's main thread to avoid audible detection, establish persistence by setting the `configuration` value under `HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows NOT\CurrentVersion\Accessibility` (or `HKLM` for SYSTEM persistence), create custom Accessibility Tools that run arbitrary binaries, and trigger execution remotely via RDP (by changing RDP-related registry settings and using Ctrl+Win+Enter). The techniques were tested on Windows 10 and 11.

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