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(Almost) undetectable hardware-based rootkits

FOURTH-GENERATION ROOTKITS

Author(s): KURT SEIFRIED

We look at the history of the rootkit, including its newest incarnation, the DR RootKit.

Originally, I intended to write an article about the current state of rootkits and the tools that could be used to detect them. But I ran into a slight problem – the more modern rootkits tend to be really good at avoiding detection. By really good, I mean that you’re unlikely to detect them unless you take action, such as a detailed analysis of a system memory dump, for example, comparing the actual kernel image with the expected.


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