monthly archive for April, 2009

As already mentioned in a previous posting I stumbled upon an old proxy server code that attracted my attention again. Driven by the same idea as at the first time, out of curiosity how the spammers and hackers do theirĀ  job and who else is using this anonymizing srvices I modified and installed the script [...]

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It is a critical moment when hackers unleash their malware into the wild and have to get in touch with the outside world. They expose themselves for a short moment and risk to leave traceable tracks that may reveal their identity. We read and see regularly in the media malware is spreading successfully and unnoticed [...]

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Open proxy server

About one year ago I coded a simple HTTP proxy server with the objective to propagate my own proxy server among the anonymizing proxy server providers to analyze the traffic coming from their network. I hoped collecting account information that way. They didn’t disappoint me. Yesterday I’ve stumbled uppon this small PERL script again and [...]

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Inner structure of a trojan horse

I wanted to give a rough overview how a Trojan horse is organised in itself and visualise its structure a little. It took me some time and after some hours of work the result is the diagram below. It shows a Trojans install and start routines and the three main modules with its functions. You [...]

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