Debugging Obfuscated Code
We have mentioned a number of times that loading an obfuscated program in a debugger, allowing it to run until the de-obfuscation is complete, and then taking a memory snapshot of the program in its de-obfuscated state seems like a good strategy for obtaining a de-obfuscated version of a program. Controlled execution is probably a better way of thinking about this process than debugging, because all we are really doing is observing the code in operation and then taking a memory snapshot at the appropriate moment. A debugger simply happens to be the tool that allows us to accomplish this task. At least that is what we are hoping for. In Chapter 21 we discussed several anti-disassembly and anti-debugging techniques that ...
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