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Wow, the author's gone above and beyond. Pages and pages of useful information, and this statement is just in the middle of a sentence: "turn this into a phony
by sedatk 2y ago
Wow, the author's gone above and beyond. Pages and pages of useful information, and this statement is just in the middle of a sentence:
"turn this into a phony ELF binary"
That would alone take me days to tackle (convert a PowerPC PE into a PowerPC ELF). He mentions it like it's similar to copying a line on a text editor.
Totally amazed at the level of detail and amount of work went into this article. Thanks!
- classichasclass 2y ago(author) Thank you! But this was actually not very difficult. The PE format is well-documented, so I just extracted the code segment addresses, then generated an ELF by emitting code like this with a hacky Perl script: .globl main main: trap .byte 0xfc .byte 0xff ... etc. Assemble, run that in gdb, it traps immediately, and just disassemble from PC.
- qingcharles 2y agoThe entire article was like 100X what anyone deserves. It was an awesome amount of detail. I absolutely love when random lost pieces of hardware/software history end up right where they belong with exactly the right person to know what to do with them.