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Microsoft Windows Registry loaded with malware

Sep

2012

Nowadays it’s very common for threats to use rootkit techniques to hide malicious files on computer hard drive, but it’s not so common to hide actual payload in the Windows Registry and use malicious file as only a loader. The following sample has evolved a bit since we first saw this kind of thing but […]

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Quickpost: Some Windows 8 Observations

Oct

2011

I assume you know Microsoft released Windows 8 Developer Preview.1) The UserAssist registry keys still exist, and still use ROT13 encoding:Notice that there are also entries for the launching of Metro apps (e.g. alarms).But there are also a couple of extra keys, I’ll analyze them when more definitive versions of Windows 8 are released:2) My […]

Category Security Written by Didier Stevens 0 Comments

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