Offline infection requirements

Details

Mentioned below are the operating systems that you can infect offline; however you must also consider the backdoor requirements that will later be installed on the machine.

Requirements/Conditions/Restraints:

You can infect only the following operating systems:

• Windows XP, Vista, 7, 8, 8.1;
• OS X 10.5, 10.6, 10.7, 10.8, 10.9 e 10.10;
• Linux Debian, Ubuntu, Mint, CentOS, Fedora, OpenSuse e Mageia.
   

General advice

Although we never encountered problems during lab tests, please follow some general advice:

• DVD infection - burn the ISO to a Imation DVD, at a speed not exceeding 4x (with other CD/DVD brands some customers have encountered boot problems);
• USB infection - copy the ZIP contents on a USB Key at least as big as 2 GB (see this article for more details about the creation of a bootable USB key).

BIOS configuration

Some BIOS settings may create problems, to prevent them you can:

1. enter the BIOS;
2. set hard disk mode to IDE;
3. change the boot sequence so that the machine boots from CD/DVD or USB first (depending on the infection vector used);
4. restart the computer and run the offline boot from CD/DVD or USB;
5. at the end of the infection, restart the computer and restore the previous BIOS configuration (restoring the original hard disk mode and boot sequence);
6. restart the computer and try to load the operating system installed on the PC.

!!! ⇒ The type of agent installed on the target is chosen automatically based on the configuration of the target system. You can not force the installation of a particular agent type.