Section 2: Malware

Question 1

Malware

Answer 1

Software designed to infiltrate a computer system and possibly damage it without the user’s knowledge

Question 2

What are the seven different kinds of malware?

Answer 2

Viruses, worms, trojan horses, ransomware, spyware, rootkits, and spam

Question 3

Virus

Answer 3

Malicious code that runs on a machine without the user’s knowledge and executes code; requires user action in order to reproduce and spread

Question 4

What are the 10 different kinds of viruses?

Answer 4

Boot sector, macro, program multipartite, encrypted, polymorphic, metamorphic, stealth, armored, and hoax

Question 5

What is a boot sector virus?

Answer 5

stored in the first sector of a hard drive and loaded into memory upon boot up

Question 6

Macro

Answer 6

Virus embedded into a document and is executed when the document is opened by the user

Question 7

Program virus

Answer 7

infect an executable or application (happens inside of a program)

Question 8

Multipartite

Answer 8

Combines boot sector and program virus (loaded every time computer boots and installs itself in a program)

Question 9

Encrypted Virus

Answer 9

A virus that’s encrypted and is difficult to detect via an antivirus program

Question 10

Polymorphic virus

Answer 10

Advanced version of an encrypted virus that changes itself every time it is executed by altering the description module to avoid detection

Question 11

Metamorphic Virus

Answer 11

Virus that is able to rewrite itself

Question 12

Armored viruses

Answer 12

have a layer of protection to confuse a program or person analyzing it

Question 13

Hoax Virus

Answer 13

Trying to trick the user into infecting their own machine