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Low level driver reuse by Malware?

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Simon Zerafa

Simon Zerafa

Hi Steve,

I was listening to the Risky Business podcast and the discussion turned to malware and specifically the reuse of code and drivers (particularly low level hardware drivers).

A though then struck that any low level hardware drivers developed for SR 7.0 might run the risk of reuse on Windows for nefarious purposes?

Without knowing how cross compatible RTOS and Windows code might be then I don't know if this could be a issue or not. You will probably know though.

Clearly the availability of a signed(?} kernel level driver which has access to storage media might not be the best idea ever 😉

I suspect this may be a non issue or you already have a cunning plan to avoid this but, just in case!

Kind Regards

Simon Zerafa


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PHolder

This seems to be a worry about something that is impracticable to actually happen. "Living off the land" implies that code is already in place (in general) for use. Code for a different OS is unlikely to be in place in a running Windows OS. Additionally, OS software is coded in layers, and RTOS32 has a layer that makes it look partially like Windows, but the underlying parts are going to be very different, and incompatible. (The company could not have binary compatibility at all levels without actually using Microsoft code and thus getting sued.)


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