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Service Persistence

Disclosed
01/01/1983
Created
05/30/2018

Description

This module will create a service on the box, and mark it for auto-restart. We need enough access to write service files and potentially restart services Targets: System V: CentOS <= 5 Debian <= 6 Kali 2.0 Ubuntu <= 9.04 Upstart: CentOS 6 Fedora >= 9, < 15 Ubuntu >= 9.10, <= 14.10 systemd: CentOS 7 Debian >= 7, <=8 Fedora >= 15 Ubuntu >= 15.04 Note: System V won't restart the service if it dies, only an init change (reboot etc) will restart it.

Author(s)

  • h00die <mike@shorebreaksecurity.com>
  • Cale Black

Platform

Linux,Unix

Architectures

cmd

Development

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/service_persistence
msf exploit(service_persistence) > show targets
    ...targets...
msf exploit(service_persistence) > set TARGET < target-id >
msf exploit(service_persistence) > show options
    ...show and set options...
msf exploit(service_persistence) > exploit

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