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Persistent Payload in Windows Volume Shadow Copy

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Disclosed
Oct 21, 2011
Created
May 30, 2018

Description

This module will attempt to create a persistent payload in a new volume shadow copy. This is
based on the VSSOwn Script originally posted by Tim Tomes and Mark Baggett. This module has
been tested successfully on Windows 7. In order to achieve persistence through the RUNKEY
option, the user should need password in order to start session on the target machine.

Author

Jedediah Rodriguez [email protected]

Platform

Windows

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