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= Malware =


== Types ==

=== Advanced Persistent Threat ===

Cybercrime directed at a business and political targets,
using variety of intrusion techs and malware, applied persistently
Often state sponsored.

=== Adware ===

Advertising that is integrated into software. Makes popup ads or
redirection of a browser to commercial site

=== Attack kit ===

Set of tools for generating new malware automatically using a variety of
supplied propagation and payload mechanisms (metasploit)

=== Auto-rooter ===

Malicous tools to break into new machines remotely

=== Backdoor (trapdoor) ===

Any mechanism that bypasses a normal security check; it may allow unauthorized
access to functionality in a program, or onto a compromised system.

=== Downloaders ===

Code that installs other items on a machine that is under attack. Included in
malware code first inserted onto a compromised system to import a larger
malware system.

=== Drive by download ===

Attack using code on a comprisimised website that exploits a browser
vulnerability to attack a client system when the site is viewed.

=== Exploits ===

Code sepcific to a single vulnerability

=== Flooders ===

Generate a large volume of data to attack a networked computer system, carrying
out some DOS attack

=== Keyloggers ===

Capture keystrokes on a compromised system

=== Logic Bomb ===

Code inserted into malware by intruder. Lies dormant until a condition is met,
then code triggers some payload.

=== Macro virus ===

Virus using macro scripting code, typically embedded in a document or document
template, and triggered when the document is viewed/edited, to run and
replicate into other documents.

=== Mobile code ===

Software that can be shipped unchanged to a htereogenous colelctions of
platforms and execute with identical semantics.

=== Rootkit ===

Tools used after a system has been compromised to gain root level access

=== Spyware ===

Software that monitors keystrokes, screen data, and/or network traffic, or
scans files for sensitive information, and sends it back to some Controler
server.

=== Trojan horse ===

Appears to have useful function, but has hidden and malicous purpose and evades
security machanisms, sometimes by exploiting legit authorizations of system
entity that invoked it

=== Virus ===

Malware that when executed, attempts to replicate itself and propigate itself.

=== Worm ===

Malware that can run independently and can propagate a complete working version
of itself onto other hosts on a network, by exploiting software vulns in the
target system, or using capture credentials