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Learning Linux Binary Analysis

Learning Linux Binary Analysis

By : "elfmaster" O'Neill
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Learning Linux Binary Analysis

Learning Linux Binary Analysis

4.8 (10)
By: "elfmaster" O'Neill

Overview of this book

Learning Linux Binary Analysis is packed with knowledge and code that will teach you the inner workings of the ELF format, and the methods used by hackers and security analysts for virus analysis, binary patching, software protection and more. This book will start by taking you through UNIX/Linux object utilities, and will move on to teaching you all about the ELF specimen. You will learn about process tracing, and will explore the different types of Linux and UNIX viruses, and how you can make use of ELF Virus Technology to deal with them. The latter half of the book discusses the usage of Kprobe instrumentation for kernel hacking, code patching, and debugging. You will discover how to detect and disinfect kernel-mode rootkits, and move on to analyze static code. Finally, you will be walked through complex userspace memory infection analysis. This book will lead you into territory that is uncharted even by some experts; right into the world of the computer hacker.
Table of Contents (11 chapters)
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History


In 2011, I created a software prototype titled Linux VMA Monitor (http://www.bitlackeys.org/#vmavudu) for a DARPA contract. This software was designed to look at live process memory or raw snapshots of process memory. It was able to detect all sorts of runtime infections, including shared library injection, PLT/GOT hijacking, and other anomalies that indicate runtime malware.

In more recent times, I considered rewriting this software into a more finished state, and I felt that a native snapshot format for process memory would be a really nice feature. This was the initial inspiration for developing ECFS, and although I have canceled my plans of reviving the Linux VMA Monitor software for now, I am continuing to expand and develop the ECFS software as it is of great value to many other people's projects. It is even being incorporated into the Lotan product, which is a piece of software used to detect exploitation attempts by analyzing crash dumps (http://www.leviathansecurity.com/lotan...

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