The inner structure of a trojan horse

When analyzing the code of a Trojan horse it often contains  methods  and functions that can be assigned to typical function groups and modules.  Even if the code and inner organisation seems to be chaotic and hard to understand because of  its structureless appearance you can assign a function to at least one of these [...]

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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 their  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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There were days when we were connected to the Internet without being afraid someone could intrude our computers and install malicious programs to steal our account and credit card information or accounting data from our computers. At least we thought so but actually that time never really existed somewhen in the year 1997, the medieval [...]

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Malware propagation is one of the most fascinating parts of the attackers activities and is attracting, besides the anger of the affected people, the most attention. It is the part where all the magic of infection and intrusion happens, where attackers release the malicious software to the wild and try to infect new victim systems [...]

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