Phase 4 – Maintaining access and hiding your tools
I know what you're thinking. There's no way he can come up with a joke for this one, right? So, when I'm talking about hiding your tools, what we're really getting into here is something I saw on one of those sarcastic t-shirts: Shhhh…I'm hiding from stupid people! That's what we're going to do here—hide our tools so that less intelligent people or those who are not security-minded will not be able to find them. Again, the last thing we want to do is go through all this effort to get our machine totally pwned and then lose it because we don't hide our software from users or IT experts.
Rootkits
When you find a rootkit in your environment, you're going to be terrified beyond the capacity for rational thought. You'll think, mother-puss-bucket!
Security Note
If you discover a system with a rootkit installed, you should never trust it. Don't clean...
