Performing Malware Persistence Investigation When to Use - When investigating how malware maintains presence on a compromised system after reboots - During incident response to identify all persistence mechanisms for complete remediation - For threat hunting to discover unauthorized autostart entries across endpoints - When analyzing malware behavior to understand its persistence strategy - For verifying that all persistence has been removed after incident remediation Prerequisites - Forensic image or live system access with administrative privileges - Autoruns (Sysinternals) for Windows pers…