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@h00die h00die commented Jan 3, 2026

fixes #20824

Windows has a feature called active setup. You notice it when you login and a grey box pops up in the top left of the screen, talking about configuring personalizations bla bla bla. We can abuse that to launch our payload, with 2 caveats. 1) you downgrade from admin to user permissions, 2) it only launches the payload once per user

Verification

  1. Start msfconsole
  2. Get an admin level shell on windows
  3. Do: use exploit/windows/persistence/registry_active_setup
  4. Do: set session #
  5. Do: run
  6. You should get a shell when a user logs in.

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New Persistence Technique: Windows Registry Active Setup

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