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Windows Silent Process Exit Persistence

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Disclosed
Jun 28, 2008
Created
Sep 29, 2025

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.

Authors

Mithun Shanbhag
bwatters-r7

Platform

Windows

Architectures

x64, x86, aarch64

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