The .ELF on the top line on the right identifies this file as an ELF file. ELF is a common standard for executable files, but the content is not going to be readable text; it will be compiled code.

The relative offsets into .rodata are now all wrong. For those who don’t routinely interface with the format of ELF files, we have a fantastic resource to take you into the dark depths.

This can be done a number of ways. Manual inspection of .map files (colloquially “mapfiles”) is the easiest place to start but not conducive to automatic tracking over time.

This article considers a DS implementation example for binary file integrity checking in Linux (64-bit ELF). We will use a direct DS when only a sender and a recipient are communicating (without a ...

PingPull on Linux The Linux variant of PingPull is an ELF file that only 3 out of 62 anti-virus vendors currently flag as malicious.

The ELF file that initiates the infection chain (AT&T) The encoding is performed using the polymorphic XOR additive feedback encoder ‘Shikata Ga Nai,’ previously analyzed by Mandiant.