BIOS infection - an item for discussion
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From: FromTheRafters on 15 Jun 2010 07:37 "~BD~" <.BoaterDave(a)hotmail.co.uk> wrote in message news:hv7966$m3t$1(a)news.eternal-september.org... > Over the years, a lot has been said about this topic. But, apart of > the old Chernobyl virus, which just zeroed the BIOS if you > motherboard was one of the supported, or some modifications with > modding purposes (that were a very valuable source of data, btw) > like Pinczakko's work, we wouldnt be able to find any public > implementation of a working, generical and malicious BIOS infection. > > Mostly, the people tends to think that this is a very researched, > old and already mitigated technique. It is sometimes even confused > whith the obsolet MBR viruses. But, is our intention to show that > this kind of attacks are possible and could be, with the aproppiated > OS detection and infection techniques, a very trustable and persistent > rootkit residing just inside of the BIOS Firmware. > > In this paper we will show a generic method to inject code into > unsigned BIOS firmwares. This technique will let us embedd our own > code into the BIOS firmware so that it will get executed just before > the loading of the operating system. > > We will also demonstrate how having complete control of the hard > drives allows us to leverage true persistency by deploying fully > functional code directly into a windows process or just by modifying > sensitive OS data in a Linux box. > > http://www.phrack.org/archives/66/p66_0x07_Persistent%20BIOS%20infection_by_aLS%20and%20Alfredo.txt Is there a question?
From: ~BD~ on 15 Jun 2010 11:17 Note the forged header! ****************** Path: eternal-september.org!aioe.org!not-for-mail From: ~BD~ <.BoaterDave(a)hotmail.kook> Newsgroups: alt.comp.virus Subject: BIOS infection - an item for discussion Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2010 03:07:17 -0800 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Lines: 43 Message-ID: <Tue.15.Jun.2010.03.07.17-0800(a)alt.butts.spanking> References: <hv7966$m3t$1(a)news.eternal-september.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: wBpuFWpHHBDJgsVnQ/n/CA.user.speranza.aioe.org X-Complaints-To: abuse(a)aioe.org X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Xref: eternal-september.org alt.comp.virus:3449 -- Dave - wondering just *why* someone would do this! ;-)
From: Heather on 15 Jun 2010 12:09 "FromTheRafters" <erratic(a)nomail.afraid.org> wrote in message news:hv7olu$5lh$1(a)news.eternal-september.org... > "~BD~" <.BoaterDave(a)hotmail.co.uk> wrote in message > news:hv7966$m3t$1(a)news.eternal-september.org... >> Over the years, a lot has been said about this topic. But, apart of >> the old Chernobyl virus, which just zeroed the BIOS if you >> motherboard was one of the supported, or some modifications with >> modding purposes (that were a very valuable source of data, btw) >> like Pinczakko's work, we wouldnt be able to find any public >> implementation of a working, generical and malicious BIOS infection. >> >> Mostly, the people tends to think that this is a very researched, >> old and already mitigated technique. It is sometimes even confused >> whith the obsolet MBR viruses. But, is our intention to show that >> this kind of attacks are possible and could be, with the aproppiated >> OS detection and infection techniques, a very trustable and persistent >> rootkit residing just inside of the BIOS Firmware. >> >> In this paper we will show a generic method to inject code into >> unsigned BIOS firmwares. This technique will let us embedd our own >> code into the BIOS firmware so that it will get executed just before >> the loading of the operating system. >> >> We will also demonstrate how having complete control of the hard >> drives allows us to leverage true persistency by deploying fully >> functional code directly into a windows process or just by modifying >> sensitive OS data in a Linux box. >> >> http://www.phrack.org/archives/66/p66_0x07_Persistent%20BIOS%20infection_by_aLS%20and%20Alfredo.txt > > Is there a question? Is there an answer?? Obviously a 'cut and paste' cuz he just ain't smart enough to write all of that there techie stuff. Hokay?? > >
From: ~BD~ on 15 Jun 2010 12:24
"FromTheRafters" <erratic(a)nomail.afraid.org> wrote in message news:hv7olu$5lh$1(a)news.eternal-september.org... %20and%20Alfredo.txt > > Is there a question? I've recently attended a boating rally. One of my fellow boaters is a 'guru' who works for IBM here in the UK. I asked him a simple question:- Can viruses/malware reside inside a computer somewhere other than on the hard disk? His immediate answer was ......... "Yes. In the BIOS". My question to you, FTR, is why do folk not discuss this in the relevant Usenet groups? -- Dave BD |