ClubHack Magazine – September 2011 – Malware Issue Released

Malwares is the buzz word right now. We are hearing so many serious incidents caused by malwares like Stuxnet, Zeus to name a few. More and more malwares are being developed, the malware maket is growing fast.
By: Team CHMag
 
Sept. 12, 2011 - PRLog -- Malwares is the buzz word right now. We are hearing so many serious incidents caused by malwares like Stuxnet, Zeus to name a few. More and more malwares are being developed, the malware maket is growing fast. And so ClubHack Magazine in September 2011 issue covers Malwares. You will read about Malwares, Malwares analysis, various tools and techniques of Malware analysis. etc. Also other than malwares you will read Ostinato - a packet/traffic crafter/generator and also about Indian Cyber Laws. Dont forget the check the awesome coverpage/poster.
Apart from this, This time ClubHack Mag is going to a few Hacking and Security conferences around the globe as Media Partners such as c0c0n, Securitybyte 2011, Hacktivity 2011, Cyberlympics, HITB Malaysia and Cyber Defense Summit. Detailed information of these events you'll find inside.
Articles in this issue:-
1.   Tech Gyan - Rootkits are Back with the Boot Infection
2.   Tool Gyan - Tools for Reverse Engineering and Malware Analysis
3.   Mom's Guide - Introduction to Malware & Malware Analysis
4.   Legal Gyan - Law relating to Cyber Pornography in India
5.   Matriux Vibhag - Ostinato - Wireshark in Reverse
6.   Poster of the Month - Angry Malwares

a.   Tech Gyan:- Rootkits are Back with the Boot Infection
Windows rootikits have been around since year 2005 and have become a buzzword in the security industry over recent years. While rootkits have traditionally been used by sophisticated attackers to hide their presence on compromised machines, recent malwares with rootkit capabilities have started using them to complicate efforts to detect and clean the infections. This article aims to give an idea about Windows rootkits with advanced techniques observed in the recent years, mainly rootkits with boot infections.

b.   Tool Gyan:- Tools for Reverse Engineering and Malware Analysis
Malware these days use more complex methods to for self protection. So to understand how malwares work, reverse engineering and malware analysis is done. Reverse engineering is the process of analyzing a subject system to identify the system's components and their relationships, and to create representations of the system in another form or at a higher level of abstraction. This process of reverse engineering is part of Malware analysis. Reverse Engineering uses tools like hex editors, disassemblers/debuggers, decompilers and monitoring tools. In this article we will look at some tools used to for malware analysis such as Hiew, OllyDbg and IDA Pro.

c.   Mom's Guide :- Introduction to Malware & Malware Analysis
Very often people call everything that corrupts their system as virus, not aware of what it actually means or does. This article systematically gives an introduction to different varieties of beasts that come under the wide umbrella called as malware, such as virus, worms, trojan horse, spywares, rootkits, etc. It also tell us the distinguishing features, prerequisites for malware analysis and an overview of malware analysis process.

d.   MatriuxVibhag :- Ostinato - Wireshark in Reverse
This article covers Ostinato Tool. This  is an open source which can generate network traffic, cradt and alaysze. You can create and configure multiple packets streams, burst packerts over multple ports and computer using a single client. This article gives a small demo of network packet genreation and capture using Ostinato.

e.   Legal Gyan :- Law relating to Cyber Pornography in India
Pornography or obscenity is very sensitive issue all over the world yet there is no settled definition of the word under any law. What is nude art or sexually explicit thing for one person may be obscene or porn for another. Hence, it is very difficult to define “What is porn?”
This article aims to explain how Indian Laws take on Cyber pornography. The author tries to explain the laws and punishment through a scenario.

Click here to download magazine: http://chmag.in/issue/sep2011.pdf
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