history-of-malware.md

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Join this room to learn about the first forms of malware and how they turned into the malicious code we see today.

🔍 History of Malware

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Room Attributes	Value
Subscription Required	False [Free]
Type	Walkthrough
Difficulty	Info
Tags	Security, Walkthrough, Malware, History

Video Walkthrough

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Task 1 - Introduction

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Task 2 - The Creeper Program

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Who re-designed the Creeper Virus?

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🚩Ray Tomlinson

How is data transferred through a network?

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🚩Packet Switching

Who created the first concept of a virus?

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🚩John von Neumann

What text did the Creeper program print to the screen?

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🚩I'm the Creeper, catch me if you can!

What does ARPANET stand for?

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🚩Advanced Research Projects Agency Network

Which team created the network control program?

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🚩Network Working Group

What is the first virus commonly known as?

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🚩Creeper

Task 3 - Reaper

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Who created Reaper?

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🚩Ray Tomlinson

What type of malware may Reaper be known as?

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🚩Nematode

What was the first ever anti-virus program known as?

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🚩Reaper

What was Bob Thomas' main project to develop?

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🚩A resource-sharing capability

Research: What does API stand for?

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🚩Application Programming Interface

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Task 4 - Wabbit

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What is a modern day fork bomb also known as?

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🚩Denial of service attack

Was Rabbit one of the first malicious programs? (Y/N)

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🚩Y

What did the name "Wabbit" derive from?

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🚩Looney Tunes Cartoons

Task 5 - ANIMAL

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When was PERVADE added to ANIMAL?

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🚩1975

Did John think this was a good idea? (Y/N)

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🚩Y

What computers did the program spread across?

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🚩UNIVACs

What type of malware is ANIMAL also known as?

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🚩A Trojan

Who built the wooden horse?

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🚩The Greeks

Task 6 - Elk Cloner

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Which US Military regiment caught the virus?

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🚩US Navy

How many lines long is the Elk Cloner poem?

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🚩7

When was Elk Cloner written?

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🚩1982

Is a boot sector virus more or less common in modern technology?

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🚩less

How long did it take Richard to write the program?

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🚩2 Weeks

Which Operating System was affected?

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🚩Apple II

Task 7 - The Morris Internet Worm

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What commands were a very big way that allowed Morris to access the computers?

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🚩Berkeley r-commands

Who was one the first person prosecuted for the computer misuse act?

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🚩Robert Tappan Morris

What type of attack is a "Fork Bomb"?

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🚩Denial of Service

When was this worm released?

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🚩1988

How many computers did it infect within 15 hours?

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🚩2000

What does rsh mean?

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🚩remote shell

Under which act was Morris arrested for?

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🚩1986 Computer Fraud and Abuse act

Task 8 - Cascade

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What was the name of this virus?

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🚩Cascade

What file extensions would this virus infect?

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🚩.COM

How many variants of there virus were possibly found?

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🚩40

What operating system would the virus run on?

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🚩DOS

Which Operating System/Frame Work would Cascade try to avoid?

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🚩IBM

How many bytes would be added onto your file if it got infected?

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🚩1704

Task 9 - Thanks for reading!

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