CompTIA PenTest+ PT0-001 Cert Guide

Chapter 8

Performing Post-Exploitation Techniques

This chapter covers the following subjects:

• Maintaining Persistence After Compromising a System

• Understanding How to Perform Lateral Movement

• Understanding How to Cover Your Tracks and Clean Up Systems After a Penetration Testing Engagement

During a penetration testing engagement, after you exploit a vulnerability and compromise a system, you may perform additional activities to move laterally and pivot through other processes, applications, or systems to demonstrate how they could be compromised and how information could be exfiltrated from the organization. You may also maintain persistence by creating backdoors, creating new users, scheduling jobs and tasks, and communicating with a command ...