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FIGURE 5.46 Extracting strings from a packed ELF executable

Embedded Artifact Extraction Revisited

After successfully executing a malicious code specimen (Chapter 6), conducting process memory trajectory analysis (Chapter 6), or extracting the executable from physical memory (Chapter 3), re-examine the specimen for embedded artifacts.

▶ After successfully executing a malicious code specimen or extracting the executable from physical memory, re-examine the unobscured program for strings, symbolic information, file metadata, and ELF structural details. In this way, a comparison of the “before” and “after” file will reveal more clearly the ...

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