Groups | Search | Server Info | Login | Register

Groups > comp.security.misc > #1546

Re: Finding backdoors

From Richard Kettlewell <invalid@invalid.invalid>
Newsgroups comp.security.misc
Subject Re: Finding backdoors
Date 2024-10-01 16:44 +0100
Organization terraraq NNTP server
Message-ID <wwva5fn3k0y.fsf@LkoBDZeT.terraraq.uk> (permalink)
References <vd3uf2$7ng3$1@dont-email.me> <wwvbk08uoui.fsf@LkoBDZeT.terraraq.uk> <vdfs6p$2jf3c$1@dont-email.me>

Show all headers | View raw

<bp@www.zefox.net> writes:
> Richard Kettlewell <invalid@invalid.invalid> wrote:
>> I think the most popular approach is object code analysis, probably
>> build on a lot of experience of typical backdoor strategies. Search
>> terms would be ‘reversing’ and ‘decompiling’.
>
> Hmm, that's a bit surprising. So it's easier to find suspicious code
> by examining the compiled object files, rather than the source? 

I’m not sure how you reach that conclusion. People analyse object code
because for the most part that’s what they have, not because it’s
necessarily easier than analysing source code.

-- 
https://www.greenend.org.uk/rjk/

Back to comp.security.misc | Previous | Next — Previous in thread | Next in thread | Find similar

Thread

Finding backdoors <bp@www.zefox.net> - 2024-09-26 15:26 +0000
  Re: Finding backdoors Marco Moock <mm+usenet-es@dorfdsl.de> - 2024-09-26 20:15 +0200
    Re: Finding backdoors William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2024-09-26 19:57 +0000
      Re: Finding backdoors Marco Moock <mm+usenet-es@dorfdsl.de> - 2024-09-27 17:31 +0200
        Re: Finding backdoors William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2024-09-27 16:26 +0000
          Re: Finding backdoors Marco Moock <mm+usenet-es@dorfdsl.de> - 2024-09-27 20:11 +0200
  Re: Finding backdoors Richard Kettlewell <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2024-09-28 10:09 +0100
    Re: Finding backdoors <bp@www.zefox.net> - 2024-10-01 04:01 +0000
      Re: Finding backdoors Richard Kettlewell <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2024-10-01 16:44 +0100
      Re: Finding backdoors rlhamil@smart.net (Richard L. Hamilton) - 2024-10-18 21:04 +0000
        Re: Finding backdoors <bp@www.zefox.net> - 2024-10-18 23:37 +0000
          Re: Finding backdoors rlhamil@smart.net (Richard L. Hamilton) - 2024-10-19 02:20 +0000

csiph-web