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mschuster91 • today at 1:47 AM • 2 replies • view on HN

> I want to make a persistent implant/malware that survives OS reinstalls.

You want to look into something called "Windows Platform Binary Table" [1]. Figure out a way to reflash the BIOS or the UEFI firmware for your target device ad-hoc and there you have your implant.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19800807

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baby_souffle • today at 3:03 AM

> You want to look into something called "Windows Platform Binary Table" [1].

Is this how various motherboard manufacturers are embedding their system control software? I was helping a family friend with some computer issues and we could not figure out where the `armoury-crate` (asus software for controlling RGB leds on motherboard :() program kept coming from

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ronsor • today at 2:02 AM

Only works if the target is running Windows (paranoid people might be on Linux), so you'd probably want to slip in a malicious UEFI driver directly. Tools like UEFITool can be used to analyze and modify the filesystem of a UEFI firmware image.