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Python for Offensive PenTest
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Python for Offensive PenTest

by Hussam Khrais
April 2018
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
176 pages
4h 16m
English
Packt Publishing
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Persistence

Maintaining access is a very important phase of penetration testing. Let's assume that our target has run our shell and all things are going fine. Then suddenly, the target just turned off the computer. So, in this case, we'll lose everything. So, the key point here is that we need to survive after a reboot or a shutdown by the target machine. Now, before proceeding any further, some customers prohibit any modification to the target machine, so you've got to make sure you set the right expectations with your customer before proceeding any further.

If the modification is allowed, then we have three phases of execution as given here:

  1. First, we'll copy ourselves in a different location and we are doing that just in case our target ...
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