Parent class: Malware
Malicious tools are malicious programs designed to automatically create viruses, worms, or Trojans, conduct DoS attacks on remote servers, hack other computers, etc. Unlike viruses, worms, and Trojans, malware in this subclass does not present a direct threat to the computer it runs on, and the program’s malicious payload is only delivered on the direct order of the user.Read more
Class: DoS
DoS programs are designed to conduct DoS (Denial of Service) attacks on a victim computer. Essentially, these attacks send numerous requests to a remote computer, and if the computer does not have enough resources to process all the incoming requests, the result will be a denial of service.Read more
Platform: Win
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This type of DoS attack is made possible by the CVE-2006-5614 vulnerability. This vulnerability allows the attacker to cause a denial of service (crash of svchost.exe) by using a corrupted DNS request that triggers the NULL pointer dereference.Read more
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