Summary
In this chapter, we covered the "need-to-know" information about virus engineering for ELF binaries. This knowledge is not common, and therefore this chapter hopefully serves as a unique introduction to this arcane art of viruses in the underground world of computer science. At this point, you should understand the most common techniques for virus infection, anti-debugging, and the challenges that are associated with both creating and analysing viruses for ELF. This knowledge comes to great use in the event of reverse engineering a virus or performing malware analysis. It is worth noting that many great papers can be found on http://vxheaven.org to help further your insights into Unix virus technology.
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