Developing Malware and Analyzing it Afore & After Steganography with OSINTs
Mrinal Kaushik, Monica Malik, Bhawna Narwal · 2020 IEEE International Conference for Innovation in Technology (INOCON) · 2020
Malicious software aka Malware is one of the stern threats that has been around ever since the computers were developed. Malware is designed by malicious attackers whose intension is to bring down the system or to take over the system. It is very difficult to detect unknown malware as compared to known ones. Steganography tools allow users for embedding the hidden data inside the carrier file like video, audio, or an image, and later data is extracted. Here, malware is hidden inside an image by attackers to manipulate the victims and it can be done via phishing technique which is one of the famous and well-known practices done by the attackers. This paper provides an overview of creating malware using Metasploit in the Parrot OS (Operating System) which is a secure OS, later the Steganography tool is used to manipulate the victim and the victim's system is taken over by the attacker. Also, a summarized analysis is given on the Open Source Intelligence Tools (OSINT) and which one gives the best results.