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Learning Linux Binary Analysis

You're reading from   Learning Linux Binary Analysis Learning Linux Binary Analysis

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781782167105
Length 282 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Ryan "elfmaster" O'Neill Ryan "elfmaster" O'Neill
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Preface 1. The Linux Environment and Its Tools 2. The ELF Binary Format FREE CHAPTER 3. Linux Process Tracing 4. ELF Virus Technology – Linux/Unix Viruses 5. Linux Binary Protection 6. ELF Binary Forensics in Linux 7. Process Memory Forensics 8. ECFS – Extended Core File Snapshot Technology 9. Linux /proc/kcore Analysis Index

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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