{"id":10068,"date":"2025-07-05T23:44:20","date_gmt":"2025-07-05T23:44:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hexacorn.com\/blog\/?p=10068"},"modified":"2025-07-05T23:44:20","modified_gmt":"2025-07-05T23:44:20","slug":"beyond-good-ol-run-key-part-148","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hexacorn.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/05\/beyond-good-ol-run-key-part-148\/","title":{"rendered":"Beyond good ol\u2019 Run key, Part 148"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Analyzing the very same binary (<em>AggregatorHost.exe<\/em>) that makes the persistence trick described in my previous post work, I noticed that there is one more Registry entry we can use as a persistence mechanism:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\">HKLM\\SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\Windows\\CurrentVersion\\Diagnostics\\DiagTrack\\TestHooks\\TestUndockedAggregatorDll=&lt;malware><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>Same as in the previous post, it loads with a system start.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Analyzing the very same binary (AggregatorHost.exe) that makes the persistence trick described in my previous post work, I noticed that there is one more Registry entry we can use as a persistence mechanism: HKLM\\SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\Windows\\CurrentVersion\\Diagnostics\\DiagTrack\\TestHooks\\TestUndockedAggregatorDll=&lt;malware> Same as in the previous post, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hexacorn.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/05\/beyond-good-ol-run-key-part-148\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[35],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hexacorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10068"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hexacorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hexacorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hexacorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hexacorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10068"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.hexacorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10068\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10069,"href":"https:\/\/www.hexacorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10068\/revisions\/10069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hexacorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hexacorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hexacorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}