{"id":100,"date":"2011-12-23T09:00:45","date_gmt":"2011-12-23T09:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hexacorn.com\/blog\/?p=100"},"modified":"2015-04-08T05:20:33","modified_gmt":"2015-04-08T05:20:33","slug":"forensic-riddle-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hexacorn.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/23\/forensic-riddle-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Forensic Riddle #6"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many malware authors use external .bat\/.cmd files to delete the .exe dropper, because it is non-trivial to self-delete while the malware is still running. In the past it was possible to use Gary Nebbett&#8217;s famous <a title=\"Self-Deleting Executable\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ezds.com\/html\/sde.html\">self-deleting executable<\/a>\u00a0trick and it worked for Windows NT and Windows 2000. However, it doesn&#8217;t work under newer versions of Windows.<\/p>\n<p>Question:<\/p>\n<p>Is it possible to create a self-deleting executable for newer version of Windows?<\/p>\n<p>Answer <a title=\"Forensic Riddle #6 \u2013 Answer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hexacorn.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/26\/forensic-riddle-6-answer\/\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many malware authors use external .bat\/.cmd files to delete the .exe dropper, because it is non-trivial to self-delete while the malware is still running. In the past it was possible to use Gary Nebbett&#8217;s famous self-deleting executable\u00a0trick and it worked &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hexacorn.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/23\/forensic-riddle-6\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hexacorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hexacorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hexacorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hexacorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hexacorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.hexacorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2973,"href":"https:\/\/www.hexacorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100\/revisions\/2973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hexacorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hexacorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hexacorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}