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Practical Malware Analysis
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Practical Malware Analysis

by Michael Sikorski, Andrew Honig
February 2012
Intermediate to advanced
800 pages
23h 55m
English
No Starch Press
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Lab 6-4 Solutions

Short Answers

  1. The function at 0x401000 is the check Internet connection method, 0x401040 is the parse HTML method, 0x4012B5 is printf, and 0x401150 is the switch statement.

  2. A for loop has been added to the main method.

  3. The function at 0x401040 now takes a parameter and calls sprintf with the format string Internet Explorer 7.50/pma%d. It builds a User-Agent for use during HTTP communication using the argument passed in.

  4. This program will run for 1440 minutes (24 hours).

  5. Yes, a new User-Agent is used. It takes the form Internet Explorer 7.50/pma%d, where %d is the number of minutes the program has been running.

  6. First, the program checks for an active Internet connection. If none is found, the program terminates. Otherwise, the program ...

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