Re: [Full-disclosure] DLL hijacking with Autorun on a USB drive

[Mario Vilas <mvilas@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 5:27 PM, matt <matt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 2) This opens the door for more widespread attacks.  In the case of
> PowerPoint, one could simply find a share on a network that contains a large
> amount of ppt files and save his/her rogue DLL file in that directory.
>  Then, whenever anyone opens one of the files, the attacker gets immediate
> access to the victims PC without the victim having any idea.

This is not any different from what worms used to do back in 2000...

http://dpnm.postech.ac.kr/research/04/nsri/papers/010919-Analysis-Nimda.pdf

(See page 4)

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