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Bash Profile Persistence

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Disclosed
Jun 8, 1989
Created
Dec 16, 2019

Description

This module writes an execution trigger to the target's Bash profile.
The execution trigger executes a call back payload whenever the target
user opens a Bash terminal. A handler is not run automatically, so you
must configure an appropriate exploit/multi/handler to receive the callback.

Author

Michael Long [email protected]

Platform

Linux,Unix

Architectures

cmd

References

Module Options

To display the available options, load the module within the Metasploit console and run the commands 'show options' or 'show advanced':


    msf > use exploit/linux/local/bash_profile_persistence
    msf exploit(bash_profile_persistence) > show targets
        ...targets...
    msf exploit(bash_profile_persistence) > set TARGET < target-id >
    msf exploit(bash_profile_persistence) > show options
        ...show and set options...
    msf exploit(bash_profile_persistence) > exploit
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