Development of an intrusive Linux capacity

Offensive Security

DAP/22-E01

Active

Innovation for Defence

October 2021 October 2025

49 months

Zacharia Mansouri, Thibault Debatty

The goal of the project is to study the different options for injecting a malware on a Linux platform, for making it persistent, performing a privilege escalation, and for establishing a command & control channel with the operator of the malware.

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