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Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH) Practice Question

During a post-exploitation phase on a Windows Server 2019 host, you need a mechanism that will launch your remote-access Trojan automatically during every boot and run silently in the background even when no user is logged on. Which approach best satisfies this persistence requirement?

  • Overwrite utilman.exe with cmd.exe to trigger a shell via the Sticky Keys shortcut

  • Create a new Windows service that points to the Trojan executable and set its start type to Automatic

  • Place the Trojan's path in HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnce

  • Add an entry in the hosts file that maps the server's hostname to the attacker's C2 address

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