Google Hacking Malicious Code

Security researcher H.D. Moore has released a new malware search engine and its underlying code to help searchers find malware code that Google has indexed.

But Google isn’t exactly happy about it.

Moore who co-authored the Metasploit Framework, a platform for testing and developing exploit code, also launched his Month of Browser Bugs (MoBB) project, which is disclosing a new browser vulnerability every day this month.

In addition to publicly posting the new malware search engine, Moore has posted the source code behind the engine in three segments: the Malware Signature Generator; the Malware Google API Signature Search; and the Malware Downloader.

All three have been released under the open source GPL license and have been written in Ruby.

Moore’s Malware search engine is hardly the first effort at what is commonly referred to as “Google Hacking.”

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