Mastering Metasploit

Maintaining access

Maintaining access is crucial because we might need to interact with the hacked system repeatedly. Therefore, in order to achieve persistent access, we can add a new user to the hacked system, or we can use the persistence module from Metasploit.

Running the persistence module will make the access to the target system permanent by installing a permanent backdoor to it. Therefore, if the vulnerability patches, we can still maintain access to that target system, as shown in the following screenshot:

Running the persistence module will upload and execute a malicious .vbs script on the target. The execution of this malicious script ...