Agreed, I’m not saying it’s impossible to detect the OS, but it’s even more trivial for an adversary to regex the User Agent and serve the malware for that OS. The average user doesn’t even know what a User Agent is, and that’s who the drive by malware websites are counting on to infect because they’re easy targets.
Just like a real fingerprint, that will only identify the fingerprint to a person, not tell you that the fingerprint is from someone who is European. Fingerprints are used to track you across different websites, and build a profile of you for advertising.
My logic was that it is much more likely that someone will spoof there useragent already if they are on Linux. If threat actor is targeting not just Windows but also Linux, they probably would understand the very real likelyhood of platform spoofing.
Agreed, I’m not saying it’s impossible to detect the OS, but it’s even more trivial for an adversary to regex the User Agent and serve the malware for that OS. The average user doesn’t even know what a User Agent is, and that’s who the drive by malware websites are counting on to infect because they’re easy targets.
Just like a real fingerprint, that will only identify the fingerprint to a person, not tell you that the fingerprint is from someone who is European. Fingerprints are used to track you across different websites, and build a profile of you for advertising.
Yeah okay.
My logic was that it is much more likely that someone will spoof there useragent already if they are on Linux. If threat actor is targeting not just Windows but also Linux, they probably would understand the very real likelyhood of platform spoofing.