Jeff Williams did a talk about this at Blackhat last year as well for Java Rootkits.
Paper here: http://www.blackhat.com/presentations/bh-usa-09/WILLIAMS/BHUSA09-Williams-En terpriseJavaRootkits-PAPER.pdf On 12/17/10 8:56 AM, "Chris Wysopal" <cwyso...@veracode.com> wrote: > > Here is a paper that I wrote with Chris Eng that covers major categories of > backdoors with examples. > > http://www.veracode.com/images/stories/static-detection-of-backdoors-1.0.pdf > > Our Blackhat presentation > > http://www.veracode.com/images/stories/static-detection-of-backdoors-1.0-black > hat2007-slides.pdf > > -Chris > > -----Original Message----- > From: Jeremy Epstein [mailto:jeremy.j.epst...@gmail.com] > Sent: Thursday, December 16, 2010 6:10 PM > To: Sebastian Schinzel > Cc: Secure Coding; websecurity > Subject: [WEB SECURITY] Re: [SC-L] Backdoors in custom software applications > > There was an interesting example in a NPS thesis about a decade ago > introducing a back door into a device driver. I can't remember the student's > name, unfortunately. Phil something-or-other. > > On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 3:18 PM, Sebastian Schinzel <s...@seecurity.org> > wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I am looking for ideas how intentional backdoors in real software >> applications may look like. >> >> Wikipedia already provides a good list of backdoors that were found in >> software applications: >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backdoor_(computing) >> >> Has anyone encountered backdoors during code audits, penetration tests, data >> breaches? >> Could you share some details of how the backdoor looked like? I am >> really interested in a technical and abstract description of the backdoor >> (e.g. informal descriptions or pseudo-code). >> Anonymized and off-list replies are also very welcome. >> >> Thanks, >> Sebastian >> _______________________________________________ >> Secure Coding mailing list (SC-L) SC-L@securecoding.org List >> information, subscriptions, etc - >> http://krvw.com/mailman/listinfo/sc-l >> List charter available at - >> http://www.securecoding.org/list/charter.php >> SC-L is hosted and moderated by KRvW Associates, LLC >> (http://www.KRvW.com) as a free, non-commercial service to the software >> security community. >> Follow KRvW Associates on Twitter at: >> http://twitter.com/KRvW_Associates >> _______________________________________________ >> > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Join us on IRC: irc.freenode.net #webappsec > > Have a question? Search The Web Security Mailing List Archives: > http://www.webappsec.org/lists/websecurity/archive/ > > Subscribe via RSS: > http://www.webappsec.org/rss/websecurity.rss [RSS Feed] > > To unsubscribe email websecurity-unsubscr...@webappsec.org and reply to the > confirmation email > > Join WASC on LinkedIn > http://www.linkedin.com/e/gis/83336/4B20E4374DBA > > WASC on Twitter > http://twitter.com/wascupdates > > > _______________________________________________ > Secure Coding mailing list (SC-L) SC-L@securecoding.org > List information, subscriptions, etc - http://krvw.com/mailman/listinfo/sc-l > List charter available at - http://www.securecoding.org/list/charter.php > SC-L is hosted and moderated by KRvW Associates, LLC (http://www.KRvW.com) > as a free, non-commercial service to the software security community. > Follow KRvW Associates on Twitter at: http://twitter.com/KRvW_Associates > _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ Secure Coding mailing list (SC-L) SC-L@securecoding.org List information, subscriptions, etc - http://krvw.com/mailman/listinfo/sc-l List charter available at - http://www.securecoding.org/list/charter.php SC-L is hosted and moderated by KRvW Associates, LLC (http://www.KRvW.com) as a free, non-commercial service to the software security community. Follow KRvW Associates on Twitter at: http://twitter.com/KRvW_Associates _______________________________________________
