[Dailydave] Vista speach recognition

[George Ou]

Ah I made a wrong assumption.  Any executable you launch regardless of
whether it attempts to access system files or not will trigger UAC.

The file deletion concept still works though.

George 

-----Original Message-----
From: George Ou [mailto:george_ou at lanarchitect.net] 
Sent: Wednesday, January 31, 2007 3:09 AM
To: 'Sebastian Krahmer'; 'dailydave at lists.immunitysec.com'; 'Rich Mogull'
Subject: RE: [Dailydave] Vista speach recognition

I just verified that TinyURL.com will give you a nice URL to an executable.

Here's an example of a URL that opens a .EXE file.
http://tinyurl.com/3d588b

Now imagine that this was actually a user-mode malicious payload that avoids
triggering UAC which contains ransomware.  It's very easy to use Vista
speech command open IE7 and say "tinyURL.com/3d588b", "enter", "run".  That
will actually download and launch your desired payload from any website and
TinyURL will make it easy to say.  This is actually easier than my
successful document-deleting recycle bin emptying test because it's a
shorter script.



George