Source: fumalwareanalysis.blogspot.com
Learning Goals:
- Understand the general interrupt handling mechanism on x86 platform;
- Understand the byte scission anti-debugging technique; and,
- Know how to use a binary debugger to patch an executable program
The general anti-debugging techniques are as follows:
(1) to detect the existence of a debugger, and behave differently when a debugger is attached to the current process; and,
(2) to disrupt or crash a debugger.
The instruction we are trying to analyze is the “INT 2D” instruction located at 0x00413BD5 (as shown in Figure 1). By single-stepping the malware, you might notice that the program’s entry point is 0x00413BC8. After the execution of the first 8 instructions, right before the “INT 2D” instruction, the value of EAX is 0x1. This is an important fact you should remember in the later analysis.
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