SFP Primary Cluster: Malware
A category in the Common Weakness Enumeration published by The MITRE Corporation.
Summary
Categories in the Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE) group entries based on some common characteristic or attribute.
This category identifies Software Fault Patterns (SFPs) within the Malware cluster.
Weaknesses
The product contains code that appears to be malicious in nature.
The product does not properly prevent access to, or detect usage of, alternate data streams (ADS).
The product contains code that is designed to disrupt the legitimate operation of the product (or its environment) when a certain time passes, or when a certain logica...
Non-replicating malicious code only resides on the target system or product that is attacked; it does not attempt to spread to other systems.
Replicating malicious code, including viruses and worms, will attempt to attack other systems once it has successfully compromised the target system or the product.
The product collects personally identifiable information about a human user or the user's activities, but the product accesses this information using other resources b...
A trapdoor is a hidden piece of code that responds to a special input, allowing its user access to resources without passing through the normal security enforcement me...
The product appears to contain benign or useful functionality, but it also contains code that is hidden from normal operation that violates the intended security polic...
Categories
This category identifies Software Fault Patterns (SFPs) within the Covert Channel cluster.
Concepts
CWE identifiers in this view are associated with clusters of Software Fault Patterns (SFPs).
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