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Re: USB Drives that think they're CDROMs
From: Dave Aitel <dave () immunityinc com>
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2006 08:17:49 -0400
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Anonymized posting: kick ass. so can this thing be used to boot systems that will boot off USB CDROM drives, but not off thumb drives? can i load a bootable Linux ISO on these suckers and be good to go? Robert Wesley McGrew wrote:
I recall a couple of messages posted here a while back about using USB drives that pretend to be CDROMs for their ability to autorun whatever nasty code you'd like to throw on there. Yesterday I picked up a SanDisk Cruzer Micro 512MB drive with "U3 Smart" functionality. U3 is a platform for developing applications that can run "cleanly" from a USB drive. The way it's implemented, at least on this Cruzer, is that it pretends to be two drives at once: the large main drive, and a small 6 meg USB CDROM drive. This allows it to write-protect the U3 software and autorun it whenever you stick it into a windows machine (kind of annoying). After tinkering with it for a while, I've figured out a way to convince the update utility to write an arbitrary small ISO to to the normally unchangeable CDROM: http://cse.msstate.edu/~rwm8/hackingU3/ Something similar is probably possible with other U3 drives. Pretty handy if you're looking to do this sort of iPod-ish-jacking/snarfing thing on the small and cheap. Or even if you just want to replace U3 with something more useful.
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