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Awesome Malware Persistence 
A curated list of awesome malware persistence tools and resources.
Malware persistence consists of techniques that adversaries use to keep access to systems across restarts, changed credentials, and other interruptions that could cut off their access. Techniques used for persistence include any access, action, or configuration changes that let them maintain their foothold on systems, such as replacing or hijacking legitimate code or adding startup code.
This is an extract with only links to the tools and resources taken from the main article about malware
persistence.
Contents
Techniques
Persistence techniques and detection.
Persistence Removal
Tools and commands for persistence mechanisms removal. Beside the tools mentioned below, use standard OS commands to remove the persistence.
General
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Awesome Incident Response - Use the tools and resources for security incident response, aimed to help security analysts and DFIR teams.
Windows
Detection Testing
Tools for testing detections. Use the techniques described in Persistence Techniques to create these files or add the configuration changes by hand to test your detections.
Prevention
Tools for preventing malicious persistence.
macOS
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BlockBlock - A tool which provides continual protection by monitoring persistence locations and protects them accordingly. Similar to KnockKnock but for blocking.
Collection
Tools for persistence collection.
General
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Awesome Forensics - Use the tools from this list which includes awesome free (mostly open source) forensic analysis tools and resources. They help collecting the persistence mechanisms at scale, e.g. by using remote forensics tools.
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osquery - Query persistence mechanisms on clients.
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OSSEC - Use rules and logs from the HIDS to detection configuration changes.
Linux
There is no persistence collection tool for Linux. Use some of the tools from #General or standard OS commands for collection. Thanks for contributing links to Linux specific persistence collection tools.
macOS
Windows
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Autoruns - A powerful persistence collection tool on Windows is Autoruns. It collects different categories and persistence information from a live system and in
limited ways from offline images. There is a UI and a command line program and the output format can be set to CSV which can then be imported into your log collection system of choice.
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AutorunsToWinEventLog.ps1 - Instead of using CSV output and copy these file to the server, you can use the AutorunsToWinEventLog script to convert the Autoruns output to Windows event logs and rely on standard Windows event log forwarding.
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PowerShell Autoruns - A PowerShell version of Autoruns.
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RegRipper - Extracts various persistence mechanisms from the registry files directly.
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RECmd - Extract various persistence mechanisms, e.g. by using the config file UserClassesASEPs to extract user's CLSID information.
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KAPE - The tool allows collecting various predefined artifactgs using targets and modules, see KapeFiles which include persistence mechanisms, among others there's a collection of LNK files, scheduled task files and scheduled task listing or a WMI repository auditing module.
Contributing
Contributions welcome! Read the contribution guidelines first.