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Hiding with the cloak of invisibility

Hiding with the cloak of invisibility

From the course: Ethical Hacking: Evading IDS, Firewalls, and Honeypots

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Hiding with the cloak of invisibility

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- [Instructor] Malware will go out of its way to hide once it's on the target system. If it can evade detection, it's more likely to accomplish its intended goals. Let's have a look at one way in which this works. I'm in a command shell and I'll go into my local user application directory by typing cd appdata\local. And I'll go into the Windows sub-sub-sub-directory by typing cd microsoft\windows. When I list the contents of the directory, there's a number of files and folders, but there's no history sub-directory. When I list hidden files, we can see there are a few, but there's still no history sub-directory. However, the history sub-directory does exist. We just can't see it. Let's try to change directories and go into it. That worked. Let's see what we've got here. We have a desktop.ini file, so let's have a look at what's inside it. This is the method Microsoft uses to hide folders. We can see it includes two…

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