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USB Drives that think they're CDROMs
From: "Robert Wesley McGrew" <wesleymcgrew () gmail com>
Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2006 15:20:29 -0500
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. -- Robert Wesley McGrew http://cse.msstate.edu/~rwm8/ _______________________________________________ Dailydave mailing list Dailydave () lists immunitysec com http://lists.immunitysec.com/mailman/listinfo/dailydave
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- Re: USB Drives that think they're CDROMs Dave Aitel (Jun 14)
- Re: USB Drives that think they're CDROMs Dave Korn (Jun 14)
- Re: USB Drives that think they're CDROMs Nick DeBaggis (Jun 14)