Editing Maintaining Access (section)

=== Tools ===
* [[Metasploit]] – deploy persistent backdoors and remote shells
* [[Netcat]] – maintain reverse shells and listeners
* [[Socat]] – flexible relay tool for persistent tunnels
* [[Chisel]] – TCP/UDP tunnel over HTTP via client-server model
* [[ngrok]] – secure tunnels to localhost, useful for callback access
* [[Persistence scripts]] – like Empire’s persistence modules or custom Bash scripts
* [[SSH]] – persistent shell access via authorized_keys
* [[Plink]] – command-line connection tool part of PuTTY suite
* [[Systemd services]] – for persistence on modern Linux systems
* [[Scheduled Tasks]] / [[Cron]] / [[At jobs]] – time-based execution of payloads