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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 18-2 Solutions

First, we run PEiD on the Lab18-02.exe file, and we learn that the packer is FSG 1.0 -> dulek/xt. To unpack this program manually, we first load it into OllyDbg. Several warnings state that the file may be packed. Since we already know that, we just click through the warnings.

When we load the program, it starts at entry point 0x00405000. The easiest approach is to try the Find OEP by Section Hop option in the OllyDump plug-in. We select Plugins ▸ OllyDump ▸ Find OEP by Section Hop (Trace Over), which stops the program at 0x00401090. This is encouraging, because 0x00401090 is close to the beginning of the executable. (The first set of executable instructions within a PE file is typically located at 0x00401000, and this is only ...

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