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RE: when will AV vendors fix this???


From: "Thomas D." <whistl0r () googlemail com>
Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2006 20:20:03 +0200


-----Original Message-----
From: Bipin Gautam
Sent: Saturday, August 05, 2006 9:21 AM
Subject: when will AV vendors fix this???

to keep things simple, let me give you a situation;

if there is a directory/file a EVIL_USER is willing to hide from
antivirus scanner all he has to do is fire up a command prompt & run
the command;

cacls.exe TORJANED_FILE_OR_DIRECTORY_NAME /T /C /P EVIL_USER:R


next time EVEN when the administrator starts the antivirus "system
scan" the TORJANED_FILE_OR_DIRECTORY_NAME   will be effectively
bypassed as the ownership of the directory is just of the user account
named; EVIL_USER and the antivirus "manual scan" is running just with
the privilage of ADMINISTRATOR> 

by this way a malicious executable can remain hidden in the system
BYPASSING THE SCAN even when the AV scanner is run by administrator!!!

But I cannot execute this file, becaus I have no access.
If I get access, the anti-virus program will also get access...

So I might be able hide something, but I can't do anything.

Also, to hide something, I have to bypass the autoprotection... You
shouldn't be able to do this...


-- 
Whistl0r

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