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Slightly related, I remember reading once of malware that uses a virtual machine running TinyXP[0] to obfuscate itself from the host OS. The footprint of TinyXP
by favourable 3y ago
Slightly related, I remember reading once of malware that uses a virtual machine running TinyXP[0] to obfuscate itself from the host OS. The footprint of TinyXP is tiny compared to the latest versions of Windows and runs on very little RAM, and gets past reverse engineering ploys which aim to unravel what the malware does.
[0] https://archive.org/details/tiny-xp-rev-11 https://archive.org/details/tiny-xp-rev-11
- tsujamin 3y agoThis reminds me of the Australian National University hack, where the threat actor downloaded and spun up their own XP/Kali VMs on servers they compromised https://theuniguide.com.au/news/anu-releases-details-of-data-breach https://theuniguide.com.au/news/anu-releases-details-of-data...
- mdaniel 3y ago"tiny" ... "I do not think that word means what you think it does": - AllSnap v1.33.2 - Comodo Internet Security v5.0.163652.1142 (requires reboot) - DirectX 9c June 2010 - Everything v1.2.1.371 - Foxit PDF Reader Pro v3.0.1301 - GetDiz v4.4.0.0 - HashCheck v2.1.11 - Prio v1.9.9.2091 - Visual-C++ Runtimes 2005 and 2008 - WinRAR v3.91 and even the Archive entry is tagged 691MB
- gattilorenz 3y agoThat's software not installed by default but available on the ISO, should you decide to install it. Earlier ISOs of TinyXP were less than 150 Mb in size. The "MicroXP" variant (also from the same ISO) installs in <10 minutes and takes about 250 Mb if you disable the page file. It can even be reduced a bit more if you know you're not going to use some components (e.g. a browser), I assume.
- favourable 3y agoThat's the one. I got them mixed up. Link for it is here: https://archive.org/details/MicroXP-0.82 https://archive.org/details/MicroXP-0.82