Malware Infections

Question 1

Threat Vector

Answer 1

Method used by an attacker to access a victims machine (Like unupdated windows)

Question 2

Attack Vector

Answer 2

Method used by an attacker to gain access to a victim’s machine in order to infect it with malware (Exploiting a threat vector)

Question 3

Watering Holes

Answer 3

Malware is placed on a website that you know your potential victims will access

Question 4

Botnet

Answer 4

A collection of compromised computers under the control of a master node

Question 5

Active Interception

Answer 5

Occurs when a computer is placed between the sender and receiver and is able to capture or modify the traffic between them

Question 6

Privilege Escalation

Answer 6

Occurs when you are able to exploit a design flaw or bug in a system to gain access to resources that a normal user isn’t able to access

Question 7

Backdoors

Answer 7

Used to bypass normal security and authentication functions

Question 8

Logic Bomb

Answer 8

Malicious code that has been inserted inside a program and will execute only when certain conditions have been met

Question 9

Exploit Technique

Answer 9

Describes the specific method by which malware code infects a target host

Question 10

Dropper

Answer 10

Malware designed to install or run other types of malware embedded in a payload on an infected host

Question 10

Downloader

Answer 10

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

Question 11

Shellcode

Answer 11

Any lightweight code designed to run an exploit on the target, which may include any type of code format from scripting languages to binary code

Question 12

Code Injection

Answer 12

Exploit technique that runs malicious code with the identification number of a legitimate process