This code performs the following actions: 1. **Creates a Scheduled Task**...

This code performs the following actions:

1. Creates a Scheduled Task using the schtasks command.

   • The task is named MomMonitor.
   • It is set to trigger on system startup (/sc onstart).
   • It runs with the highest privileges (/rl highest).
   • It is configured to run using the Administrator account (/ru Administrator).
   • The task executes the command powershell.exe -w h (this launches PowerShell with a hidden window due to the -w h flag).
   • The >/f indicates that it forces the creation of the task, overwriting it if it already exists.
   • The output of this command is redirected to ${LoGpaTH}, which seems to be a variable for a log file path.

2. Checks for the existence of the PowerShell profile script at a specific path:

   • The script checks whether the profile script file C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\profile.ps1 exists. The .Replace('\', '') part is unnecessary here but seems to remove backslashes (likely ineffective in this context due to improper use of \ as a literal backslash).

3. Writes the current script’s content to the profile script if the file does not exist:

   • If the profile script does not exist, the current script itself is written into it. This uses a combination of:
     • Get-Content to read the script’s content.
     • Join-Path to get the full path of the current script.
     • Output redirection (>) to write the script’s content to the profile script.

What is the overall goal of this script?

This script appears to attempt modifying the system's PowerShell configuration to:

1. Create a scheduled task (MomMonitor) that runs a hidden PowerShell instance on system startup with administrative privileges.
2. Potentially insert malicious or custom code into the PowerShell profile file (profile.ps1) if it doesn’t already exist.

The PowerShell profile (profile.ps1) is a script that executes automatically whenever a PowerShell session starts. By modifying it, an attacker could introduce persistent, automatically executed code.

Likely Purpose:

• This code seems intended to set up persistence on a system, possibly for malicious purposes. It leverages administrative privileges, scheduled tasks, and PowerShell profile modifications to ensure repeated execution of custom PowerShell code.