Persistence

Question 1

Scheduled Jobs or Tasks (Persistence)

Answer 1

• Scheduled Jobs (cron) - used in linux, OS X, allows a script or command to be run at periodic times, dates or intervals
• Scheduled Tasks (at) - Windows command line program to schedule tasks, task scheduler is the GUI version

Question 2

Daemons (Persistence)

Answer 2

• Background process that exists for the purpose of handling periodic service requests that a computer expects to receive
• windows calls these “services”

Question 3

Backdoors (Persistence)

Answer 3

*method to bypass normal authentication or encryption in a computer system, may take the form of hidden part of a program (like trojan or rootkit)

Question 4

Trojans (Persistence)

Answer 4

*any malicious computer program that misleads users to their true intent, pretends to be something its not but allows attacker to access the system

Question 5

Creating New Users (Persistence)

Answer 5

*attacker creates new accounts, can be created as admin or regular users