malware acsc-glossary
Adware
Software that pushes ads. Sometimes you agreed. Sometimes the installer lied. Either way it is extra code on the box.
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Terms, frameworks, and concepts used on an Australian defensive desk. No exploit steps.
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Botnet
A herd of hijacked devices taking orders. Spam, floods, miners, and stuffing logins all rent the same cattle.
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Drive-by download
Hostile code lands because you visited. No attachment required. The click was the URL.
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Keylogger
Software (or hardware) that records typing. Credentials and payments are the usual prize. This desk does not document how to build one.
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Malvertising
The ad network is the delivery path. A 'legitimate' page, a hostile creative.
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Malware
Software that is there to harm you: steal, lock, spy, or hitch a ride. Virus, worm, Trojan, ransomware — different delivery, same job.
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Ransomware
Hostile software that locks your data or systems and bills you to get them back. Often also steals a copy first. Restore beats negotiation as a control.
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Rootkit
Tooling that grabs high privilege and then hides. If you only look where it wants you to look, you will miss it.
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Spyware
Software that watches what you do without a real yes. Sometimes bundled. Sometimes smuggled.
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Trojan
Hostile software dressed as something you meant to run. The gift is the rest of the program.
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Virus
Hostile software that hitchhikes: it attaches to other programs or copies itself across systems. Needs a host. Still not a metaphor for every pop-up.
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Watering hole
Poison a site your targets already visit. The prey comes to the water. Patching and isolation still apply.
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Worm
Self-copying hostile software that uses the network as a tram. Often no click required once it is inside.
Definitions informed by ASD's ACSC glossary. cyber.gov.au glossary