Update for 08-03-22 14:45

tech/malware.wiki

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 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