26.08.2016 Views

Technical Analysis of Pegasus Spyware

eWE8mND

eWE8mND

SHOW MORE
SHOW LESS

You also want an ePaper? Increase the reach of your titles

YUMPU automatically turns print PDFs into web optimized ePapers that Google loves.

As Citizen Lab mentioned in their report, <strong>Pegasus</strong> puts its own protection above all else. From the manual, as quoted by<br />

Citizen Lab:<br />

In general, we understand that it is more important that the source will not be exposed and the target will suspect<br />

nothing than keeping the agent alive and working.<br />

To this end, <strong>Pegasus</strong> has a large number <strong>of</strong> features that enable it to maintain its secrecy. It constantly monitors the phone<br />

for status and disables any other access to the phone by previous/other jailbreaking s<strong>of</strong>tware. <strong>Pegasus</strong> also contains a<br />

complex self-destruct mechanism which completely removes it from the phone.<br />

Disabling Updates<br />

The Stage 3 loader ensures that the phone won’t receive auto-updates going forward:<br />

TECHNICAL ANALYSIS OF PEGASUS SPYWARE | 14

Hooray! Your file is uploaded and ready to be published.

Saved successfully!

Ooh no, something went wrong!