In today’s world, we see many systems getting infected with malware and threats that are just feeding off the user’s actions. However, we must focus on preparing ourselves for these malicious threat agents that are hidden and very hard to see in the open. Moreover, we should be ready for the next gigantic attack on our systems which brings me to this article where the creator of it explains that he has developed an open source tool named rapid_env. This analysis tool stands for rapid environment that allows for the template based provisioning of a Windows environment. This tool sees files, registry keys, processes and mutex which can change the way modern threats behave in our systems. Also, in the article you can see the analysis tool in …show more content…
The user and creator of the analysis tool states that this could help protect Windows environments from being infected over and over again when setting up the operating system such as the examples given. This example on the system assumed that the system was compromised by the malware and just move on without worrying about anything. This tool that is explained in the article is one of the upcoming tools that people are creating to get rid of the malware on Windows systems across the globe. We need more creators like this that can develop more forensic tools to keep our systems safe and secure from any malicious activity happening in our files and registry. Also, we need tools like this one to stay up to date on the viruses and malware that are modified and produced by the black hat hackers that want to bring your system down to its knees to take its data that is from the user then finish the computer off. The hackers want this to happen, but we don’t have to sit around and do nothing about we must step up to act on this problem to provide protection to all our operating systems not just Windows. I like this article because the author speaks of using this analysis tool for good and not for bad intentions. Furthermore, this tool can be moving in a great direction in technology because the way it is set up it looks easy to operate no expertise needed for operating this tool jus to be familiar with
Utilizing two simple command switches, -O and -v, provided a wealth of information about the host system. Most notably, it listed all of the open ports, protocols, and the operating system of the target system. This quick gathering of information enabled the execution of more detailed commands against specific ports to expose specific vulnerabilities. This information can then be used to address any specific vulnerabilities that are
Antivirus is programming program that outline to make PC gradually in light of the fact that programmer can be take the secret word and furthermore the records can be erase frame desktop and imperative things like video and picture there case about that treats, worms and Trojans.
First of all, I observed windows processes by using ‘Process Monitor’ application and found the suspect processes that start and stop in the short time period. Thus, the application tools that we need to use in this challenge are ProcessExplorer and ProcessMonitor. The ProcessExploere is using for comparison all of processes in assignment image OS, Windows-XP-Assignment.ova, and normal image OS, Windows-XP.ova. This tools will help us compare the different processes list between two images and lead us to easily isolate suspect processes that running in assignment image as shown in Figure 5 and Figure 6. About the ProcessMonitor, I used to observe the behaviours’ of suspect processes such as what they do, which processes they called, and/or what are the parameters they used to participate with other applications, also all of activities that they proceed, show on Figure 7. The difficult part that I found in this stage is how malware specify the targets and key for encryption. In this challenge, the new knowledge that I learnt is the malware do not need to create all code from scratch but they can build from any security application and make worst damage to social. In this case, they use gpg application also known as PGP, that the one of security application using for encrypt and sign data for secure communication and widely use in secure email
As we know virus protection software is a code written by one of the programing languages that we know. This code works as a search engine looking for infected files in the entire system or specific locations on the system. The idea depends on two important factors which are, search engine and viruses’ data base. The following scenario explains how people get viruses and how virus protection software works.
The lab consist of using the AVG scan in the virtual machine to detect the different threats that were found which were moved to the virus vault. The window defender was used to verify the different infections and spyware that were found in the virtual machine. Malware and spyware are growing trends in the world of technology. It is good to know the steps to take just in case your system is infected with these nasty malicious malware and spyware.
installed in the host to be scanned, and has direct access to lowlevel data, such as specific services and configuration details of the host's operating system. It can therefore provide insight into risky user activities such as using easily guessed passwords or even no password. It can also detect signs that an attacker has already compromised a system, including looking for suspicious file names, unexpected new system files or device files, and unexpected privileged programs.
The legislation has a weighty influence on people, whether the decisions are made in proper or improper ways. In recent years, the Supreme Court has developed the three levels of scrutiny for equal protection challenges (Snider, 2014). Among those levels of scrutiny are: Strict scrutiny, Intermediate scrutiny, and rational basis review. Strict scrutiny is the way of legal reviews, which are used to define the constitutionality of laws. It is considered to be the highest level among all the legislation controls (Snider, 2014). The Supreme Court of the USA defined that legislation, which discriminates on the basis of national origin, religion, race must pass such level of protection as strict scrutiny
This was an interesting piece of software for sure, I enjoyed the GUI and already knew about a lot of the stuff included in the lab. What I did do with the free trial though was scan the computer with the antivirus scanner that came packaged in. It was nice, quick, simple and gave an easy to read output.
Both reviews were amazing. They both gave great examples and explained the elements that they wrote about in great detail. However, if I had to choose which one I thought was better, I would choose the Pluggedin review. The reason why I’d choose the Pluggedin review is because it shows more elements of the movie. Furthermore, it goes into greater depth by giving many examples of each element. Whereas, the Rogerebert review is more story-like and describes the elements more broadly within the movie. I personally always prefer more specific examples when I’m trying to understand something, which is why I chose the Pluggedin review. An example of where I believe the Pluggedin review has the Rogerebert review beat is when describing the element
Main crime use: This crimeware's current focus is downloading an adware BHO (browser helper object) onto a compromised system.
When investigating possible malware from a workstation memory, the process off capturing and analyzing volatile data is the key to unlocking important evidence. While some information may be stored securely on an encrypted volume, ongoing communications in social networks, open network communications, data on running processes, and chat rooms never ends up in the hard drive. Therefore, a responder should make a memory dump to acquire the digital evidence in addition to understanding that the evidence they may be looking for could be contained in the physical memory to avoid a shut down that could tamper with the evidence. The physical memory contains such data as possible malicious codes, unencrypted content, network information, and open files and registry handles.
Computer viruses are minute program which is “embedded inside an application or within a data file which can copy itself into another program“(Adams et al, 2008 ) for the sole determination of meddling with normal computer operations. The consequences may range from corruption and deletion of data; propagation of virus on to network and deployment through attachments through emails in order to further creating havoc to all associated computing devices.
In the 2nd half of 2007, the developers of malicious software chose two distinctive paths. One group terminated such software, while the other turned to viruses and Trojans. Thus, Zhou decided to enter the field of Trojan cleanup. Unlike anti-malicious software, the anti-Trojan segment had been dominated by major anti-virus developers. However, having analyzed the technological differences, Zhou believed that there were opportunities for Qihoo in this area. As Zhou noted, “Trojans are distinguished from conventional viruses in that they require simple technologies, which means an accelerated lead time in development. In some cases, a developer can create a Trojan in just a few days after proper training. Thus, the number and variations of Trojans keep increasing. In general, anti-virus developers launch only one cleanup program every year, supplemented by periodic updates. Facing fast changing Trojans, the conventional anti-virus engine technologies are less capable.”
In the scope computerized threat rootkits are not given the credit they deserve. They tend to be minimized while they proved to be a much serious danger. Dr Mark Ciampa had categorized rootkits under the concealment subgroup of malware, which avoiding detection is their primary characteristic. He had briefly defined rootkits as set software tools used to hide the actions of other types of software by changing the operating system to force it to ignore their malicious files and activities. Rootkits also hide or remove all traces of evidence that may reveal the malware, he said. His definition is not totally accurate even though he pin pointed the main purpose for what rootkits are used for, which is concealment. Contrary to the popular believe rootkits are not malware and not necessarily malicious. Greg Hoglund and James Butler in the Subverting Windows Kernel Rootkits book identified rootkits as a computing technology that can be used for evil or goods purposes. For the sake of this paper, the attention given to rootkits will be focusing on understanding what a rootkit is and how it works, the different type of rootkits and their implementations, detection measure to not get infected and preventive measure to avoid infection.
Static analysis is the kind of analysis in which one can study a specific program or malware even without its actual or real execution. From many advantages of Static analysis it is very interesting that this analysis can open up about how a malware or a program would efficiently behave under the conditions which are not usual or not normal in behavior, it is just because the parts of the malware can be analyzed separately which are not included in normal execution. In general and more real examples this analysis provides best results. It is