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    newest version here

    Purpose: detecting rootkits.

    Quick overview: when you start RootAlyzer, it performs a very quick scan of a few important places, taking about a second on modern machines. To check the full system, click on the Deep Scan tab.

    Background: Rootkits like to hide by blending into system functions and avoiding that they get listed themselves. Windows systems are quite complex though, and files and registry entries can be listed using various ways, processes are referred to in different places, and many rootkits just don't hide from all of them, but only the standard ones that hide them from the regular user. RootAlyzer goes through the file system, the registry and process related lists using various different methods, and compares the results.

    Some screenshots: to see what I'm talking about, here are some screenshots:
    • The Quick Scan screen shown when starting the appplication:

    • The drive selection when switching to the Deep Scan:

    • The Deep scan itself:

    • Properties shown for a hidden file:

    • Properties shown for a hidden registry key:

    • Properties for a hidden process:

    • More properties for a hidden process:

    The property sheets are actually a bit newer inside the release version, offering Delete/Terminate buttons.

    It's a work-in-progress (with a new project tools category available here to track bugs and feature requests), but it's already helping to easily locate some of the current malware rootkits.
    Last edited by PepiMK; 2008-03-22 at 10:46. Reason: updated from 0.1.1.13 to 0.1.2.21
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    wow, it looks great! Is it vista compatible?

    btw there is a small typo

    Some screenshots: to see what I'm taking about
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    Quote Originally Posted by honda12 View Post
    btw there is a small typo
    "to see what i'm talking about"
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    Ah yes, compatibility, should've mentioned that somewhere

    The whole file/registry stuff is NT/2000/XP/2k3/Vista only, since it compars NT native mode function results against Win32 subsystem results (no NT would mean nothing to compare against). Process stuff could work on 9x as well.

    The screenshots show XP, admitted Wouldn't see why it wouldn't work on Vista, though I didn't test it a lot there.
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    Screenshots of log in next version (ignore the results shown, those are fake entries to have something visible while debugging):





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    Last edited by ndmmxiaomayi; 2008-02-27 at 06:25. Reason: Should have read properly.
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    Does RootAlyzer use a driver?

    The last time I tested a rootkit scanner, it crashed my Vista so badly that I had to re-image my Vista back.
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    No, it does not
    Though a file system filter service/driver might be something to look at in a future version. But if it does, then not permanently installed, but just for the moment.
    What it does now is it just communicates more directly with the NT level of the Operating System, instead of using the Win32 subsystem.
    If rootkits would hide on the NT level as well (not the standard rootkit current malware ), that would indeed ask for a filesystem filter. Or that other solution in the coming Spybot-S&D plugins update
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    Thanks.
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    With Windows 2000 the Rootalyzer does not look like the screenshot. The icons are missing as well as the detailed information in the quick scan window (see my attachment).

    While testing the deep scan I wondered if the Rootalyzer would find objects with a broken ACL. Obviously it does not.

    The background is: Some time ago I screwed up the windows installer. First I didn't know how I've done it, but then I became clear that I likely messed it up with a reg cleaning utility. After a lot of searching I found out that there were some installer related registry keys that couldn't be accessed (with rededit). With regedt32 I found out that the keys didn't have any account authorised on them. (Later I've been told that this is called "broken ACL".) After taking over ownership and authorising the keys the installer was working again.

    Accidentally I found another key with a broken ACL in my registry and I guess that there are some more.

    I did some tests. Regedit shows this key, but cannot access it. Regalyzer doesn't show this key.

    I would be glad if there would be a tool which is able to find objects with a broken ACL.

    cu, Robo

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