Beyond good ol’ Run key, Part 29

LNK files are used by malware for many years so there is not much new about it that can be said with regards to persistence.

Examples include:

Placing shortcut files in popular locations (Desktop, Start Menu)
Replacing an .exe path inside the .lnk files with one pointing to a malicious executable (‘man-in-the-middle’, or a variant of a companion virus)
Exploits (as used by Stuxnet)
Etc.
The following examples explore 2 more (but less popular) methods of leveraging LNK files as a persistence mechanism here........http://www.hexacorn.com/blog/2015/03/13/beyond-good-ol-run-key-part-29/