Metasploit Revealed: Secrets of the Expert Pentester

Changing access, modification, and creation time with timestomp

Metasploit is used everywhere, from private organizations to law enforcement. Therefore, while carrying out covert operations, it is highly recommended that you change the date of the files accessed, modified, or created. In Metasploit, we can perform time-altering operations using the timestomp command. In the previous section, we created a file called creditcard.txt. Let us change its time properties with the timestomp command as follows:

We can see the access time is 2016-06-19 23:23:15. We can use the -z switch to modify it to 1999-11-26 15:15:25, as shown in the preceding ...