{"id":426,"date":"2012-01-24T13:00:16","date_gmt":"2012-01-24T13:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hexacorn.com\/blog\/?p=426"},"modified":"2012-02-20T01:09:11","modified_gmt":"2012-02-20T01:09:11","slug":"forensic-riddle-9a-answer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hexacorn.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/24\/forensic-riddle-9a-answer\/","title":{"rendered":"Forensic Riddle #9a &#8211; Answer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are many answers here and the very same result could be achieved in many ways:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Unicode\/homomorph attack<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\">using Unicode characters e.g. from Russian alphabet; this can be usually easily detected from a command line level:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hexacorn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/riddle9a_answer.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-431\" title=\"riddle9a_answer\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hexacorn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/riddle9a_answer-300x131.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"131\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hexacorn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/riddle9a_answer-300x131.png 300w, https:\/\/www.hexacorn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/riddle9a_answer.png 435w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>GUI attack<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\">it is relatively easy to modify the content of any other window, including windows used by Explorer to display file names\u00a0(window class is a standard &#8216;SysListView32&#8242;); some malware use GUI attacks to remove their processes&#8217; names from a list of processes shown by Task Manager<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>API hooking<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\">trivial to return two exact file names for two different entries<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>patching the file system entry directly<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>and probably a few more&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are many answers here and the very same result could be achieved in many ways: Unicode\/homomorph attack using Unicode characters e.g. from Russian alphabet; this can be usually easily detected from a command line level: GUI attack it is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hexacorn.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/24\/forensic-riddle-9a-answer\/\">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":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hexacorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426"}],"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=426"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.hexacorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":432,"href":"https:\/\/www.hexacorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426\/revisions\/432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hexacorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hexacorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hexacorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}