Re: Vista speach recognition

[Curt Wilson <curtw () siu edu>]

I've not analyzed this issue but I wonder what it might take to feed
some remotely hosted speech directly to the system as user-level
commands, bypassing the need for the sound to emerge from speakers and
be picked up by a microphone. I'd guess that higher access than a
generic user would be required for such a trick to work, such as hooking
the voice input routines (if attacker/pentester can do this, why bother
with the clumsiness of such an attack), if it would work at all.

dan () geer org wrote:
> "George Ou" writes:
> -+-----------------
>  | I just verified that TinyURL.com will give you a nice URL to an executable.
>  | 
>  | Here's an example of a URL that opens a .EXE file.
>  | http://tinyurl.com/3d588b
>  | 
>  | Now imagine that this was actually a user-mode malicious payload that avoids
>  | triggering UAC which contains ransomware.  It's very easy to use Vista
>  | speech command open IE7 and say "tinyURL.com/3d588b", "enter", "run".  That
>  | will actually download and launch your desired payload from any website and
>  | TinyURL will make it easy to say.  This is actually easier than my
>  | successful document-deleting recycle bin emptying test because it's a
>  | shorter script.
>  | 
>
> Spectacular!
>
> So, for two or more machines that can hear each other,
> I can make one of them tell another to do something
> naughty or perhaps I can even use the air itself as
> a not-very-covert-but-you-know-what-I-mean channel
> for moving data.  Plausible deniability never had it
> so good.
>
> --dan
>
> ==========
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>   Of course you have. Every time you've heard someone say
>   they saw a ghost, or an angel. Every story you've ever
>   heard about vampires, werewolves, or aliens is the
>   system assimilating some program that's doing something
>   they're not supposed to be doing.
> Neo:
>   Programs hacking programs...
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