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YuChakTinMichael‘sGIACGCFWProjectAssignment

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Viathenonemailroute:

IfGIAChasanantivirussolutionrunning,theemailattachmentmaybestripped

beforereachingtheendusers. Toworkaroundthis,wecan setupaFTPlocation

somewhereontheinternettohostthefile.Then,sendanemailtothecontactpeople

inGIACwithnoattachment.Intheemail,tellthemthatwerepresentasupplierwith

gooddealsforthem.Askthem tologontoourFTP anddownloadthe“catalog”file.

ForkBombsandViruses

Abovearejustexamplesofhowwecan“bypass”theunderfiredsecurity

architecture.The“files”weusecanbeamacrovirus,aforkbomboranythingelse.

AccordingtoRohitSingh,ForkBombsare:

“…programsorshellscriptswhich(either intentionallyoraccidentally)createnew

processesrepeatedly(usingthefork()systemcall.)Newprocessesarecreatedsofast

thatwithinnotimetheprocesstablegetsfilledupandthesystemcomestoagrinding

halt.Nootherprocesscanthenbe started,noteven'ps'toseewhotriggeredthatfork

bomb!Killingthatforkbombmeansyetanotherprocess,andthat’sexactlywhatis

scarce!AforkbombmightmeanpressingthebigRedbutton!”

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AccordingtotheWordMacroVirusFAQ,aWordMacroVirus:

“…isamacro(listofinstructions)ortemplatefile(usuallywiththe.DOTextension)

whichmasquerades as legitimateMSWORDdocuments(usuallywiththeextension

*.DOC).Aninfected*.DOCfile,doesn'tlookanydifferenttotheaveragePCuser,as

itcanstillcontainanormaldocument.Thedifferenceisthatthisdocumentisreally

justatemplateormacrofile,withinstructions toreplicate,andpossiblycause

damage.M SWORDwillinterpretthe*.DOTmacro/templatefileregardlessof

extension,asatemplatefile.Thisallowsforitbeingpassedoffasalegitimate

document(*.DOC)ThisFAQtakesthepositionthatadocumentismeanttobeDATA,

andaMACROisatleastpartiallyexecutableCODE.Whenadocumenthasbeen

infected,ithasbeenmergedwithexecutablecodeinamultipartfile,partdata/part

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