Hak5 Cloud C2 as a Windows service
As long as the C2 Windows binary is just a plain and simple exe (i.e. a "non-service" executable), it won't be allowed to start as a service in Windows (error 1053). To do this, either A) the C2 binary for Windows needs to be developed in a way that it is allowed to be started as a service or B) use one of the utilities out there on the interwebs that allows using an "ordinary" exe as a service. The "Plan B" is used here building on the tool "srvstart". Download the latest C2 zip file from Hak5 and extract it Download srvstart and extract the zip file https://github.com/rozanski/srvstart/blob/master/srvstart/srvstart_run.v110.zip Copy/move the two DLL and two EXE files from the srvstart zip to the C:\Windows folder of the computer (or somewhere in PATH) Make sure that there is a "msvcrt.dll" file in C:\Windows\System32 Rename the Hak5 C2 executable (64 bit variant used here) to c2_amd64_windows.exe This makes it more "transpare