December 2016
Intermediate to advanced
400 pages
11h 1m
English
book
Hacking Exposed Malware & Rootkits: Security Secrets and Solutions, Second Edition, 2nd Edition
by Christopher C. Elisan, Michael A. Davis, Sean M. Bodmer, Aaron LeMasters
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CHAPTER 4
KERNEL-MODE ROOTKITS
Perhaps the most widely used rootkit technology in the wild, kernel-mode rootkits represent the most visible rootkit threat to computers today. StormWorm, which devastated hundreds of thousands of machines in 2007, had a kernel-mode rootkit component (see http://recon.cx/2008/a/pierre-marc_bureau/storm-recon.pdf). This component allowed the worm to do more damage and infect systems at a very deep level: the operating system.
For that reason, we’ll spend a considerable amount of time discussing the internals of the Windows operating system. Kernel mode means being on the same level as the operating system, so a kernel-mode rootkit must understand how to use the same functions, structures, and techniques that other ...
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