The Technical Avenue

Going through The Technical Avenue you will understand and explore the facts of computer related technologies.

Why Information Security ?

Some years ago information security is not a hot topic. Because in that time organizations did not heavily depend on computer based system. Internet was not there and few people had the technical knowledge. But nowadays, the situation got changed.

37H1cAl Hacking

Reconnaissance, Scanning, Gaining Access, Maintaining Access, Clearing Tracks

Computer Virus Analysis

Types of Computer Viruses, Infection Strategies, Antivirus Defense Development.

Usefull Softwres and Tools.

Contains an abbreviated list of very useful software tools for different purposes.

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Saturday, September 1, 2012

Download Entire FB Photo Album In Few Seconds

Facebook is a most common and great way to share photos with your friends and family members. There has been a huge rise in the number of photos shared on Facebook with more than 60 billion photos shared by its members already.  Everyday we see our friends and family members sharing pictures on Facebook as albums and there are times when you want to download and store them on your machine. This is quite difficult task, if you have to download each picture by right-clicking and then doing “Save Image As…” for each photo.

Facebook2Zip  is a web service that allows you to download your friends' Facebook photo albums in a single zip archive. As well as this is a simple way to back up your own Facebook photo albums. This is a totally free online too.

To start using this service, you just have to visit the Facebook2Zip official web site and log in with Facebook. When you login with your Facebook login credentials it will allow you to select yourpersonal albums or type and select your Friends name that you want to download from. Then it will display the list of albums and you can select and download. You can download individual or multiple photo albums.

Please let me know if anything is not working properly. Good Luck! :)


Virus Analysis; Code Evolution Techniques



One of the most important requirements of malicious code analysis is the understand of advanced code evolution techniques.There are common techniques used by malicious code developers and writers to evade detection and destruction: 




 
Common Techniques:

 1. Self-Encryption and Self-Decryption
Malicious code may encrypt the virus body. Even using several layers of encryption and decryption and/or using random keys (Oligomorphic Viruses) in encryption and decryption. This makes them harder to examine directly.

2. Binders and Packers
Most virus signature files are created based on the checksum value which makes use of the file properties and first few bytes of the malicious code binaries. The binders technique is to bind the virus and malicious code file on to another file, which changes its form. The packers technique is to compress the virus code before it is embedded.

3. Polymorphism
Malicious code can change its default encryption settings as well as the decryption code during self-encryption. These make it much more difficult to detect.

4. Metamorphic Viruses
These do not have a decryptor or a constant virus body but are able to create new generations that look different. Malicious code change its form by, for instance, rearranging its code fragments or/and by adding useless lines of code into its source, and recompiling itself into a new form.

5. Stealth
The technique is designed to evade anti-virus software detection by hiding the code itself.

Let's have a talk about virus infection techniques in future post.


Wrap a BAT or VBS into an EXE

There is no way to convert a .vbs files or .bat files into an executable (.exe file) because they are not a compiled language. The process of converting source code into native executable code is called "compilation", and it's not supported by scripting languages like VBScript or Batch Files.

Alternatively, there are ways to wrap VBScript and BAT code files in to a standalone executable file. There is a native Windows tool called IExpress which you can wrap a vbs or bat into an .exe.

In XP or Windows 7 press windows key + r ( OR click Start, click Run) for Run dialog box. Then enter iexpress in Run dialog box, and click OK. This starts the IExpress Wizard.

1.     On the IExpress, select Create new Self Extraction Directive file and hit Next.

2.     Select Extract files and run an installation command and click Next.

3.     On next page type a title for your package and click Next.

4.     On the Confirmation prompt page, select No prompt and click Next.

5.     On next page, select Do not display a license and click Next.

6.     On the Packaged files page, click Add and select the vbs script or bat from the directory in which it resides:

7.     When you finish adding files, click Next.

8.     On the Install Program to Launch page, in the Install Program box,type;

 c:\windows\system32\cscript.exe “yourVBS.VBS OR yourBAT.BAT” 

OR

 c:\windows\system32\wscript.exe “yourVBS.VBS OR yourBAT.BAT”

Leave the Post Install Command box BLANK.

9.  On the Show window page, select Hidden and click Next.

10.  On the Finished message page, select No message and click Next.

11.  On the Package Name and Options page, enter the path and file name that you want for this distribution package. Check both boxes and click Yes to the warning under Options and click Next.

12.  On the Configure restart page, select No restart and click Next.

13.  On the Save Self Extraction Directive page, select Save Self Extraction Directive(SED) file:, edit the path and name of the file, and click Next.

14.  On the Create package page, click Next. When the package has been created, click Finish to exit.

15.  The package will now be created with the name you specified and have an extension of .EXE.

Now you can wrap and send your funny VBScripts and Batch files as exe file. ;)


Hack Your Friend’s Keyboard (VBS Fun With Notepad)


1. Open Notepad and type :

Set wshShell = wscript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
do
wscript.sleep 100
wshshell.sendkeys "You are FOOL"
loop


2. Save it as "Anything.VBS" and send it to your friend.

3. When he runs the file it will begins to type "You are Fool"  simultaneously. He will kill you. But This one not harmful. We can stop the script;

To stop the Script:

1. Open "Windows Task Manager".
2. Hit the "Processes" tab.
3. Find the "wscript" and end the process.

OR

Restart the machine.

I will make a post about how to use Iexpress to wrap your VBS scripts into an .exe in my future post.


Download Videos From Youtube



If you have installed IDM you don't need to worry. This is an alternative and instant way to download videos from the web. KeepVid is the number one website for downloading streaming videos from websites. It allows you to download videos from almost all popular video sharing network; fromYoutube, GoogleVideo, Break.com, Dailymotion, Blip.tv, Groper, Current TV, and dozens of other video sharing websites.



How To Use KeepVid:

1. Copy video URL of that page.
2. Go to keepvid.com
3. Paste the URL into the the box and click on the "download" button.
** If you are first time to use KeepVid, it requested to install Java. Otherwise, you will not be able to download videos. Because Java is required as it helps fetch the download links for you faster.
4. After a moment download links are appears to several predetermined formats . Just click  and download the video from a format what you want.

Keep downloading. Good Luck!


Access Your Files From Anywhere (GoogleDrive)




Google Drive is a file storage and synchronization service by Google(Released on April 24, 2012). It is a place where you can create, share, collaborate, and keep all of your stuff. It giving you another option for stashing your stuff in the cloud.





Collaboration
Google Drive is tight integration with Google’s productivity apps. Google Docs is built right into Google Drive. So you can work with others in real time on documents, spreadsheets and presentations. And also it can handle more than 30 different types of files and you don't even have to have those programs installed on your computer to edit them.

Data anywhere
Google Drive lets you keep all your stuff in one place. Upload all your files from your computer and you can access them anywhere on the web. All your stuff is just there.

 

Google Drive is available for PC and Mac, Chrome OS,  iPhone and iPad and Android devices.

Click here to sign-up and get 5 GB free. Google Drive can be upgraded to 16TB, which is a factor if you want huge capacity online.

Keep everything. Share anything. Good Luck! :)



Internet Download Manager V6.12

Internet Download Manager(IDM) is a tool that enhance downloading speed. It increases download speeds by up to 5 times. IDM offers download scheduling, resuming and recovery for broken downloads. Internet Download Manager was designed to integrate into all the major browsers. It has a smart download logic accelerator that features intelligent dynamic file segmentation and safe multipart downloading technology to accelerate your downloads. It's friendly interface allows any user to benefit from all of its features.

Internet Download Manager v6.12. Fixed compatibility problems with different browsers including Internet Explorer 9 Final, all Mozilla Firefox versions up to Mozilla Firefox 14 (Aurora), Google Chrome. Improved FLV grabber to save videos from web players on YouTube, WOW! Google Video, MySpace TV, and other popular sites.

Download IDM + Crack

How To Install:

1) Install idman612f.exe
2) Exit the program. (Right click on the green icon of IDM found in the system tray -> Exit)
3) Copy the file "IDMan.exe" from the folder crack, in install folder, by default:
C:\Program Files\Internet Download Manager
and confirm to overwrite existing file.

That's it. Keep downloading. Please let me know if anything is not working properly. Good Luck! :)