First release of AutoRuns module

You may remember the excellent PowerShell Security series from PowerShell Magazine where I presented a Get-PSAutoRun function to investigate malware persistence ala “Sysinternals autoruns”.

I’ve actually revised its content during the last Christmas holidays and transformed it as a module.

I’ve updated the launch points the original Sysinternals autoruns utility checks and tried to do my best to keep track of what new launch points were added or removed between versions:

You may have noticed that there’s a new category for Office plugins.
I’ve also added some code about the PoweLiks malware although I hadn’t had yet a sample to fully test my detection code:

The code has also undergone a major “quality review” to reduce the number of warnings or issues reported by the PSScriptAnalyzer module.

As you can see, it still complains about using the Get-WmiObject cmdlet and the fact that I sometimes use an empty catch block to avoid returning an error.

What’s next?
I’ve published the module in the PowerShell Gallery 😀

Now, it’s your turn to test the module and tell me what you think about it. You can also contribute and fork it as it’s stored in my GitHub at this address.