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Service SystemD Persistence

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Disclosed
Mar 30, 2010
Created
Sep 17, 2025

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:
CentOS 7
Debian >= 7,
Fedora >= 15
Ubuntu >= 15.04
Verified on Ubuntu 18.04.3

Authors

h00die [email protected]
Cale Black

Platform

Linux,Unix

Architectures

cmd, x86, x64, armle, aarch64, ppc, mipsle, mipsbe

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