Retaining Access with Backdoors and Malware
Sean-Philip Oriyano · 2017
This chapter offers guidance to users on how to pick an attack, install a backdoor, open a shell, launch a virus, worms, and spyware, and insert Trojans. Malware is any type of software designed to capture, alter, or compromise the system. The PsTools suite is a collection of tools made available by Microsoft that allows for a number of operations to be performed. The next step is for the attacker to decide just what to do or what to run on the remote system. Some of the common choices are Trojans, rootkits, or backdoors. The LAN Turtle allows users to perform several attacks such as man-in-the-middle and sniffing, among many others. One of the more powerful attacks is the ability to open a remote shell on a system. Wrapping malware inside of something, which the user wants, increases the chances that the user will execute the malware and thus cause an infection. Creating a virus is a process that can be very complicated or something that happens with a few button clicks. Advanced programmers may choose to code the malware from scratch.