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Rootkits and Bootkits
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Rootkits and Bootkits

by Alex Matrosov, Eugene Rodionov, Sergey Bratus
May 2019
Intermediate to advanced
448 pages
12h 21m
English
No Starch Press
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2FESTI ROOTKIT: THE MOST ADVANCED SPAM AND DDOS BOT

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This chapter is devoted to one of the most advanced spam and distributed denial of service (DDoS) botnets discovered—the Win32/Festi botnet, which we’ll refer to simply as Festi from now on. Festi has powerful spam delivery and DDoS capabilities, as well as interesting rootkit functionality that allows it to stay under the radar by hooking into the filesystem and system registry. Festi also conceals its presence by actively counteracting dynamic analysis with debugger and sandbox evasion techniques.

From a high-level point of view, Festi has a well-designed modular architecture implemented entirely ...

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ISBN: 9781492071259