Comment on What kind of CAPTCHA is this?

dhork@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• user224@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  www.virustotal.com/gui/url/…/detection

  Possibly.
  BTW, certain malware may be able to break out of a VM.
  On the other, some malware may recognize that it is being run in a VM and do absolutely nothing to avoid analysis.

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  • ArchmageAzor@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I’m sure proper malware analysts have dedicated non-virtual machines they can just format between tests.

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    • user224@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Now I wonder if there are motherboards with easily re-flashable firmware (from a read-only device that couldn’t be tampered with).

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• b_tr3e@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Plausible.

  mshta
  I have now idea how somebody might come up with this braindead, unintuitive and irreproducable mnemonic for a JavaScript interpreter but it sounds very much like something Microsoft would do.

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• tiefling@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I’m curious what the script does, I’d love to reverse engineer it but don’t want to risk accidentally executing anything. Anyone with a disposable VM care to take the risk?

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