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Windows Silent Process Exit Persistence

Disclosed
06/28/2008
Created
10/05/2019

Description

Windows allows you to set up a debug process when a process exits. This module uploads a payload and declares that it is the debug process to launch when a specified process exits.

Author(s)

  • Mithun Shanbhag
  • bwatters-r7

Platform

Windows

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

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