The Complete Metasploit Guide

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 to change the time of the files accessed, modified, or created. We can alter the time and date of files using the timestomp command. In the previous section, we created a file called creditcard.txt. Let's 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 screenshot. Let's see ...