| tuxsavvy |
2011-12-01 06:43 |
Re: Are there any known viruses for the n900?
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Originally Posted by TiagoTiago
(Post 1130698)
If someone was intent on making a working cross platform Python virus, i would expect it should be just a matter of adding a few conditional switches to execute the different infection approaches depending on which system it is running on (and to give it a polish, check the effectiveness and try different approaches when the most commonly successful one for the system in question fails; and of course before the actual attack on the OS spread a bunch of modified and obfuscated copies as backup in case the original one gets caught)
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Cross platform malicious programs does exist, but these days with the cross platform programming languages they still more or less heavily depend on either the target having the programming tools there or using something like scratchbox to compile the source code of the malicious program into something like a pure binary based that is ELF executable under linux.
I mean for instance, if lets say the virus was written in Java. Now N900 doesn't come with Java by default. So if a cross platform attack were to happen would only affect in this instance owners with java software installed such as icedtea6.
Then there's that option of simply compiling the source code into proper assembly executable such as python compiled. Though it still heavily depends on the source codes/dependencies and what not to be available at the time of compiling into pure machine code. So again the chances of that happening are somewhat unlikely but doable. |
