You Can't See Me: A Mac OS X Rootkit Uses the Tricks You Haven't Known Yet

Presented at Black Hat Asia 2014, Unknown date/time (Unknown duration)

Attacking Mac OS X has become a trend as we see more and more malware with advanced attack techniques on Mac OS X. In order to gain persistent control and avoid detection, malware have started to adopt rootkit tricks.


Presenters:

  • Ming-chieh Pan - Team T5
    Ming-chieh's (Nanika) is Chief Researcher for Team T5 Research. He is a well-known vulnerability researcher, and has been disclosing new vulnerabilities for many years. His major areas of expertise include vulnerability research, exploit techniques, malware detection, and mobile security. He has 10+ years of experience on vulnerability research, especially on Windows platform and malicious document and exploit. He discovered numerous Windows system and document application vulnerabilities, such as Microsoft Office, Adobe PDF, and Flash. In recent years, he started his exploration and discovering problems in Mac OS X. He frequently presents his researches at security conferences, such as Black Hat, HITCON, and Syscan. He and Sung-ting are members of CHROOT security group in Taiwan.
  • Sung-ting Tsai - Team T5
    Sung-ting (TT) is the leader of Team T5 Research. Team T5 Research monitors, analyzes, and tracks cyber threats throughout the Asia Pacific region. His major areas of interest include document exploit, malware detection, sandbox technologies, system vulnerability and protection, web security, cloud, and virtualization technology. He especially is interested in new vulnerabilities in new technologies, and frequently presents the team's research at security conferences, such as Black Hat, HITCON, and Syscan. He and Ming-chieh are members of CHROOT security group in Taiwan.

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