Open Source Malware Search Engine

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Monday July 17, 2006 @11:06PM from the in-case-your-computer-isn't-infected-already dept.

chr0.ot writes "Metasploit creator HD Moore has released an open-source search engine that finds live malware samples through Google queries. From the article: 'The new Malware Search project provides a Web interface that allows anyone to enter the name of a known virus or Trojan and find Google results for Web sites hosting malicious executables.' The tool then searches for actual malware signatures and uses the signature output from ClamAV to find the name of the malware. This is then used in conjunction with a PE signature matching method to form a Google query. Afterwards the malware can then be downloaded directly from Google."

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Re:Finding malware with search engine? by Anonymous Coward · 2006-07-17 23:43 · Score: 5, Informative

Netsense search isn't open source, as is pointed out in the article.

Also, this program supposedly highlights how relatively little malware Google actually indexes, contrary to the two earlier articles you cite. Thus this is an additional development, not a dupe.