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Wouldn’t it require elevation?

Yet another example of why running as root/admin is a Bad Idea©

Yes. The prompt asking you if you wanted to do it or not would come up next.
Deploy a user-level payload that is auto started on login. The computer is now part of the botnet and can already be used for useful ops. Deploy a privilege escalation payload later if needed.