Metasploit Revealed: Secrets of the Expert Pentester

Maintaining access

Maintaining access is crucial because we might need to interact with the hacked system repeatedly. Therefore, in order to achieve persistent access, we can add a new user to the hacked system, or we can use the persistence module from Metasploit.

Running the persistence module will make the access to the target system permanent by installing a permanent backdoor to it. Therefore, if the vulnerability patches, we can still maintain access to that target system, as shown in the following screenshot:

Running the persistence module will upload and execute a malicious .vbs script on the target. The execution of this malicious ...