Spywares & Keyloggers

1. SPYWARES
&
KEYLOGGERS
Presented By
JITHIN JAMES

2. 
Introduction
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What areSpywares?
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What areKey loggers?
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Demo
Outline

4. What Are Spywares ?

Applicationsthat send information from your
computer to thecreator of thespyware

Consistsof an corefunctionality and ahidden
functionality of information gathering

Can beused for marketing information, to determine
their stancewith regard to competitorsand market
trends

Can also beused to log keystrokesand send thoseto
whomever

6. Definition
Spywareissoftware

that aidsin gathering information about a
person or organization

without their knowledge

may send such information to another
entity without theconsumer'sconsent

assertscontrol over acomputer
without theconsumer'sknowledge.

7. Spyware Symptoms
Themajor symptomsare

reset your browser'shomepage
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produceeven moreinvasiveadvertisements
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“pop-up” ads
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unwanted CPU activity

disk usage
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network traffic
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applicationsfreezing

failureto boot

system-widecrashes

8. Spyware Symptoms(Continued)

9. Types of Spyware
Spywarecan bebroken down into four different
categories:
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System monitors
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Trojans
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Adware
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Tracking cookies

10. System Monitors

Tracking Softwareused to monitor computer activity

keystrokes, e-mails, chat room conversations, instant
messages, Web sitesvisited, programsrun, timespent on
Web sitesor using programs, or user-namesand
passwords.

Theinformation istypically either stored for later
retrieval or transmitted to theremoteprocessor person
employing theMonitor
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Key-loggersand Screen Scrapersaretypesof System
Monitors.

11. Trojans

TrojansHorsesor Trojansaremaliciousprogramsthat appear
asharmlessor even desirableapplications.

Designed to causelossor theft of computer data, and to
destroy your system.
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Seven major types
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RemoteAccessTrojans
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DataSending Trojans
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DestructiveTrojans
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Proxy Trojans
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FTPTrojans
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Security SoftwareDisabler Trojans
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Denial-of-Serviceattack (DoS) Trojans

12. Trojans(Continued)

13. Trojans(Continued)
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NotableTrojans

NetbusAdvanceSystem Care(by Carl-Fredrik
Neikter)
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Subseven or Sub7(by Mobman)
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Back Orifice(Sir Dystic)
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Beast

Zeus
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Flashback Trojan (Trojan BackDoor.Flashback)
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ZeroAccess

Koobface

Vundo

14. Adware

It isany softwarepackagewhich automatically renders
advertisementsin order to generaterevenuefor itsauthor.
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Softwarethat displayspop-up advertisementstuned to the
userscurrent activity, potentially reporting aggregateor
anonymized browsing behavior to athird party

Track personal information (including your age, gender,
location, buying preferences, surfing habits, etc.)

15. Tracking Cookies

Cookiesthat can track your Web activities

May includecookiesthat contain
• user names
• passwords
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other privateinformation that you enter on
web sites(SSN, banking info, credit cards)

16. Preventive Techniques

Don't install any application unlessyou arecertain of what it
does or where it came from.
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Alwaysread thelicenseagreement

Softwareand OSupgrades

Utilizebrowser'ssecurity settings
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UseAnti-Spyware

Spy Sweeper
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Microsoft WindowsAnti-Spyware
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SpywareDoctor
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SpywareSlayer
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Spy Killer
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Spy Remover

17. What are Keyloggers?

Keystrokelogging, or keyboard capturing
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theaction of recording (or logging) thekeys
struck on akeyboard, typically in acovert manner
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so that theperson using thekeyboard isunaware
that their actionsarebeing monitored

18. Typesof Keyloggers
HardwareKeyloggers SoftwareKeyloggers
Installs in 5 seco nds, simply plug
it in.
Requires a passwo rd to lo g into
the co mputer.
Can be installed witho ut lo gging
into the co mputer.
Requires administratio n rights to
install.
Can be remo ved, and the
info rmatio n retrieved o n ano ther
co mputer.
Requires that so ftware be installed
o n the co mputer.
Requires reaching behind the
co mputer to plug the device in.
Can reco rd o perating system
events such as page file size, etc.

19. HardwareKeylogger

20. SoftwareKeylogger

21. Some Examples
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Actual Spy Keylogger
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Ardamax Keylogger
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Ghost Keylogger
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Golden Keylogger
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HomeKeylogger
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InvisibleKeylogger
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KGB Keylogger
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RemoteKeylogger
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Soft Central Keylogger
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Stealth Keylogger

22. DEMO – 1
Actual Spy Keylogger

23. THANKYOU