3 Malware Infections

Question 1

What is the term for when malware is placed on a website that you known your potential victims will access

Answer 1

watering holes

Question 2

What are some of the processes of removing malware

Answer 2

identify symptoms, quarantine, disable system restore, remediate the infected system, use automatic updates and scans, enable system restore and create a new restore point, priced end user security awareness training, and reboot the computer from an external device and scan it

Question 3

What is the type of malware that is designed to install or run other types of malware embedded in a payload on an infected host

Answer 3

Dropper

Question 4

What is a piece of code that connects to the internet to retrieve additional tools after the initial infection by a dropper

Answer 4

downloader

Question 5

What is any lightweight code designed to run an exploit on a target. This may include code format from scripting languages to binary

Answer 5

Shellcode

Question 6

What is an exploit technique that runs malicious code with the identification number of a legitimate process

Answer 6

Code injection

Question 7

What is masquerading

Answer 7

A type of threat action whereby an unauthorized entity gains access to a system or performs a malicious act by illegitimately posing as an authorized entity.

Question 8

What is DLL sideloading

Answer 8

takes advantage of weak library references and the default Windows search order by placing a malicious DLL file masquerading as a legitimate DLL on a system, which will be automatically loaded by a legitimate program

Question 9

What is process hollowing

Answer 9

a security exploit in which an attacker removes code in an executable file and replaces it with malicious code

Question 10

What is an exploit technique that uses standard system tools and packages to perform intrusions

Answer 10

Living off the land