The Dark Pterosaur is the nemesis of the Pterosaur. The two are physically identical except for the opposite light/dark colors and the fact that the Dark Pterosaur can expand its outer shell to be as large as an entire city, while still having its "main" self as a separate entity inside.
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Among the Insecticons, Hardshell is among the most ferocious. He doesn't need to prove it through words, as his many battle scars, gained while off-lining many a Wrecker, are ample proof. Shockwave describes him as preferring to rely on strategy and weaponry instead of his instincts. Hardshell also likes to gloat about those he has destroyed in battle, does not believe in mid-battle banter, and has little patience for those who insult him or his brethren.
A swarm of Insecticons including Hardshell ambushed and captured Swoop during his infiltration of Shockwave's citadel. Secrets Hardshell, Kickback, and Sharpshot later stood by Shockwave's side when Grimlock's Lightning Strike Coalition Force arrived to save Swoop. Siege Mentality
Hardshell claimed to have off-lined many Autobot Wreckers in his time, resulting in multiple scars all over his body. Toxicity Hardshell and his brothers found their way to Earth and locked themselves in stasis later to be discovered by Airachnid. Crossfire The Insecticons were temporarily controlled by Airachnid but declared their allegiance to Megatron and joined the crew of the Nemesis. Armada Hardshell and his brethren were forced into stasis lock when the Nemesis became sentient and zapped the whole crew complement in stasis. Flying Mind
When Megatron called for the most ferocious Insecticon, Hardshell put his name forward, and was sent with three other Insecticons to a volcanic region near the equator to search for an Iacon relic. He encountered and fought the Wrecker, Bulkhead, but came off second best and lost a mandible from the deal. After recovering, he and his Insecticon companions found the relic containing a small amount of Tox-En, an energon variant. They attempted to track Bulkhead, who had taken most of the Tox-En. After following a false trail the Autobot had left, they eventually caught up with him in a volcano's crater. Though Bulkhead was weakened by the Tox-En, he managed to expose Hardshell to enough of the stuff to severely weaken him. The Autobot hurled the Tox-En at Hardshell, knocking him into a volcanic vent. While the Tox-En was destroyed, Hardshell survived and blasted Bulkhead in the back as he stepped through the GroundBridge. Toxicity
Returning to the Nemesis, Hardshell faced Megatron's wrath by failing to produce the Tox-En, but mollified his master by relating the news that Bulkhead had been terminated. Knock Out got on Hardshell's nerves by questioning his claims and stating that his Insecticon partner turned out to be useless. As he gloated about his victory to two of his brothers, a few Vehicons got on his nerves when they called him and the Insecticons "pit-loving scavengers and scrap-eaters", resulting in a brawl which made Knock Out want them contained after a minor scratch to the chest. As Knock Out and Hardshell were slowly coming to blows, they received a call from Wheeljack a short time later, with the news that Bulkhead wasn't dead after all. Megatron then demanded that Hardshell return with Wheeljack's spark instead.
The Insecticon found the Wrecker at an energon mine, and the pair clashed, with Hardshell easily avoiding Wheeljack's grenade and eventually dominating the fight to the point where Wheeljack was on the ground, defenseless. As Hardshell stood over him, ready to deliver the killing blow, Hardshell was blasted by a pair of missiles from the Miko-piloted Jackhammer, killing him for good. Hardshell's corpse was taken back to the Nemesis by the other Insecticons, who informed Megatron that a human girl was responsible for Hardshell's demise, much to Megatron's confusion. Hurt
When Miko was frustrated with Bulkhead's slow recovery, Arcee tried to talk to her, but she was still feeling enraged by Hardshell's actions. Out of the Past Miko would later bring up how she "snuffed" Hardshell when Starscream brought up for the umpteenth time how he had killed Cliffjumper. Chain of Command
As Cybertron's core shut down, the Insecticons made their way up further to the surface to find Energon. Shockwave came across Hardshell, Sharpshot, and Kickback, convincing them to join the ranks of the Decepticons.
Hardshell and his brothers accompanied Shockwave as they ran a test on Grimlock, who withstood the tests. Later, Hardshell was sent by Shockwave in order to challenge a recently escaped Grimlock and Swoop. Using a battle-suit, he attempted to blast the two Dinobots away, but Swoop provided Grimlock explosive fuel pods to fling at the Insecticon. When Hardshell was defeated, Grimlock pulled the Insecticon out of his seat and smashed his face into a panel, using his optics to unlock a door. Fall of Cybertron
Hardshell, along with his two companions, was discovered by Shockwave in Cybertron's underground. He was quick to attack Shockwave, and was also quick to fall. After he, Kickback, and Sharpshot were defeated in short order, the three Insecticons agreed to join the Decepticons. Despite this, Hardshell would still take a gunshot to the face from Starscream, who had not yet received the memo about the Decepticons' "new recruits". Transformers: Rise of the Dark Spark
The source of the infection starts with a set of hooks that intercept the execution of several functions in the EFI Boot Services Table, namely AllocatePool, CreateEventEx and ExitBootServices. Those hooks are used to divert the flow of these functions to malicious shellcode that is appended by the attackers to the CORE_DXE image, which in turn sets up additional hooks in subsequent components of the boot chain, namely the Windows loader.
The position-independent code constituting ScrambleCross can be loaded in one of two ways, the first being a C++ DLL named StealthVector. It obtains the ScrambleCross shellcode by applying a modified ChaCha20 algorithm on an encrypted blob, which may reside as an additional file on disk or be embedded in the loader itself. We detected both variants of this loader in the network in question.
Another loader that we detected and is commonly used to load ScrambleCross is .NET based, referred to as StealthMutant. It works by decrypting a shellcode BLOB with AES-256 and injecting it to the address space of another process. The injected process in every case we observed was msdt.exe (Microsoft Diagnostic Troubleshooting Wizard).
The launching utility in turn uses the .NET InstallUtil.exe application in order to execute the StealthMutant image, which has the filename Microsoft.Service.Watch.targets, and providing it with the encrypted ScrambleCross shellcode as an argument from a file named MstUtil.exe.config. The utility itself is a basic C++ program that achieves the aforementioned goal by issuing the following command line using the WinExec API:
Toguro is a very tall man, standing easily over six feet, being so large that his brother can sit on his shoulders and look vastly smaller in comparison. His appearance is remarkably similar to that of a Southern-European man - unlike his older brother's Northern-European appearance - bearing a noticeable, light brownish skin color. Toguro sports a stereotypical military crew cut hairstyle, and has a long, pointed chin. He is often seen wearing sharp black sunglasses, an olive green trench coat with a green tank top underneath, dark gray pants with a black belt on his waist and black shoes that help to conceal his Olympic-style muscular physique. His sharp black sunglasses were later destroyed when he was hit for the first time by Yusuke's Spirit Gun during the Dark Tournament finals and his eyes appeared to be black instead of hazel.
When he was human, he was still rather tall and muscular, but had a slightly softer looking face and expressive hazel eyes, without any sunglasses. He wore a dark blue sleeveless martial arts dogi with a sewn-together section at its right shoulder blade, matching dark blue pants, purple sash belt, and violet martial arts shoes. 2ff7e9595c
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