OS Credential Dumping

Adversaries may attempt to dump credentials to use it in password cracking.

Renames itself

Creates/modifies Cron job

Cron allows running tasks on a schedule, and is commonly used for malware persistence.

Enumerates running processes

Discovers information about currently running processes on the system

Modifies init.d

Adds/modifies system service, likely for persistence.

Modifies systemd

Adds/ modifies systemd service files. Likely to achieve persistence.

Reads list of loaded kernel modules

Reads the list of currently loaded kernel modules, possibly to detect virtual environments.