RE: Covert Channels

From: Chris Anley (chrisat_private)
Date: Tue Oct 22 2002 - 02:37:36 PDT

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    Hi folks,
    
    Here's a bit of code that transmits a file (on a windows box) using time
    delays. For example, you could initiate a normal network transfer with the
    'transmitting' box (or a series of transfers) - say, downloading from a
    web or ftp server - and then measure the time delays using a packet sniffer.
    
    It also works as another type of covert transmitter - the 'processor
    usage' local transmitter that's mentioned in a lot of the covert channel
    literature. One difference here is that it's a 'foreign' process that's
    being manipulated. The downside is that you need some privs to access
    the process you're manipulating (but that's not really the point, as
    discussed previously in this thread).
    
    You could do this in exploit code pretty easily. You could also make this
    a lot harder to detect - right now it's pretty dumb.
    
    Anyway, it's not intended as an actual transmitter, more just an
    interesting demo.
    
         -chris.
    
    
    



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