Indicator Removal: Clear Persistence

Created the Tuesday 07 February 2023. Updated 6 months, 3 weeks ago.

Adversaries may clear artifacts associated with previously established persistence on a host system to remove evidence of their activity. This may involve various actions, such as removing services, deleting executables, Modify Registry, Plist File Modification, or other methods of cleanup to prevent defenders from collecting evidence of their persistent presence.

In some instances, artifacts of persistence may also be removed once an adversary’s persistence is executed in order to prevent errors with the new instance of the malware.

Technique Identifier

T1070.009

Technique Tags

Defense Evasion evidence removal evidence clean-up artifacts of persistence removal registry key removal

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