Chapter 8. DATATYPES AND DATA STRUCTURES
The low-hanging fruit in understanding the behavior of binary programs lies in
cataloging the library functions that the program calls. A C program that calls the
connect function is creating a network connection.
A Windows program that calls RegOpenKey is accessing
the Windows registry. Additional analysis is required, however, to gain an understanding
of how and why these functions are called.
Discovering how a function is called requires learning what parameters are passed to
the function. In the case of a connect call, beyond the simple fact that the function is being called, it is fairly important to ...
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