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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