Conficker-C: A technical analysis

Filed Under: Malware

Niall Fitzgibbon and Mike Wood in SophosLabs have written a detailed technical paper analysing the latest version of the Conficker worm.

Cover of Conficker technical paper

It's an excellent piece of research, but not for the faint-hearted so be sure to be wearing your propeller hat before downloading the PDF of "Conficker-C - a technical analysis".

By the way, don't be put off by the date being April the first. This isn't an April fool. We're not the kind of guys to do that kind of thing..

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About the author

Graham Cluley is senior technology consultant at Sophos. The readers of Computer Weekly voted him security blogger of the year in 2009 and 2010, and he pipped Stephen Fry to the title of "Twitter user of the year" too. Which was nice. He was also named "Best Security Blogger" by the readers of SC Magazine in 2011. You can subscribe to Graham's updates on Facebook, follow him on Twitter and circle him on Google Plus for regular updates.