Hands-On Red Team Tactics

Persistence via Armitage

We have already covered this in previous chapters, but in this section we will look at some of the Windows exploitation scripts that allow us to achieve persistence on the victim host. We can look for all available exploits by searching for the keyword persistence in Armitage, as shown in the following screenshot. We can see that there are different exploits available that allow us to achieve persistence. Some of these are as follows:

• Cron_persistence: This module will work on a *nix-based system and create a cron job that executes our payload.
• Registery_persistence: This module creates a payload that is run either when a user logs on or on system startup, through the registry value in CurrentVersion\Run (depending ...