Question

Write a short one page paper about Gaining Access and maintain access rootkit or spy kit and clear the log of victim machine after gaining access.

Answer 1

This is one type of dangerous security attack to hack into other systems remotely via rootkits and spy kits. These are the malicious coded softwares that are used by cybercriminals to get into other systems remotely and they make use of the system that they hacked. This type of attack has some steps to do so.

First cyber criminals gather information regarding the victim and try to find the vulnerability in his system. Then they will exploit that loophole and before patching that loophole they will install a rootkit or spy kit there in the victim's PC. Later on, even though the vulnerability was patched this backdoor stay in the system and work according to the will of cyber-criminal.

So in this Gaining Access to the system is one step where the attacker or hacker gets root access of the victim's system ( root access means the privileged mode of access). In this mode, the hacker can do anything using the victim's PC.

So here the next step is maintaining access. Previously attacker gained access to the PC but the victim may disconnect with the network or he may also shut down his PC too, now the hacker tries to make that backdoor works again after the PC is active.

He designed that rootkit in such a way that it can maintain access with that PC whenever its requirement met ( like turning PC on and connecting to the internet ). Then after doing what exactly he wants to do with that PC the attacker will get execute the last step i.e clearing logs of victim machine after gaining access to et rid of being caught by police or to be safe from risk.

Clearing logs is nothing but deleting all the history of malicious works he did on that PC remotely. So this is the proper planned execution of unethical hackers or cyber-criminals to make use of others PCs remotely. Gaining Access, Maintaining Access later on clearing logs.

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