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I was just handed a flash drive by a co-worker. When plugged into a windows machine, some logic on the device opens a run dialog, types in a URL letter by letter, and then presses enter in some way to open the website. I can't find a single file on this flash drive. I've put it in a Mac, Ubuntu Linux, and Windows machine - they all say zero files.
Behavior
Mac - Opened up the App store
Linux - Did nothing
Windows 7 - See above
Question
I'd love to be able to see the file(s) that cause this behavior. Basically, I'd like to do it myself. Any ideas?
If you try it on another Windows machine, does it still do the same? – Oded – 2011-10-25T19:37:33.967
Yes, I've tried it on three windows machines - all windows 7. – James Hill – 2011-10-25T19:38:08.193
Does your coworker have access to the Windows machine you've been doing this on? The easiest way that I can think of to do this is to implement a program on the computer that, when something is plugged into the USB drive then the program opens up a form to do what you described. I don't believe it would be too hard to do with C# but I could be wrong. – Jetti – 2011-10-25T19:41:19.140
@Jetti, I've tried it on three different windows machines. The functionality is coming directly from the jump drive - I'm confident of this. – James Hill – 2011-10-25T19:42:33.147
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Have you tried Windows SysInternals' RootkitRevealer ? It may be a very well hidden file ? Also, have you checked with Windows Disk Management tool to see how many drives the USB key has ?
– None – 2011-10-25T19:48:12.617Does http://en.kioskea.net/forum/affich-9313-i-cant-see-my-files-wich-is-not-hidden make it work?
– Jetti – 2011-10-25T19:49:28.297@Jalayn, RootKitRevealer won't run on my system for some reason. I double click it, it thinks for a second, then nothing. – James Hill – 2011-10-25T20:00:22.893
1You'll need a young priest and an old priest... – Mark Allen – 2011-10-25T21:34:40.257
1Rootkits must be actually running to work. And I don't know of a cross-platform rootkit. If he cannot see files on Linux, Mac, or Windows, it's cross platform. – music2myear – 2011-10-25T21:45:08.413
Can you just write what device manager shows? – mbq – 2011-10-26T18:54:33.290