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I thought it was a measured analysis, and it was nice to see disassembled and decompiled code. But the last bit is strange: 'Creating' phrases with hexadecimal
by scott_s 14y ago
I thought it was a measured analysis, and it was nice to see disassembled and decompiled code. But the last bit is strange: 'Creating' phrases with hexadecimal numbers is not new. And in many cases such things have been noticed in different malicious applications.
Many applications do that for sanity checks, I don't think it's any kind of indication of malware. It's a common technique to have some "magic number" that you can recognize to make it less likely that a transfer of data has some kind of corruption [1]. The benefit of using a number like 0xdeadbeef over, say, 0x1857de89 is that you can tell at a glance if the first one is correct.
[1] Yes, one should use error codes and do this the real way. Not everyone does.
- praptak 14y ago> benefit of using a number like 0xdeadbeef over, say, 0x1857de89 I remember a blog post of someone who ran the whole dictionary through 'l337sp34k' filter. The best word they found was 0xdefeca7e.
- duskwuff 14y agoThere's some other fun spellings using "8" = "ate", like 0xdefec8ed and 0x8badf00d.
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- 0xABADC0DA 14y agoBest hexword ---^ - Easy to remember and type - Not leet speak - Reminds you to keep ego in check
- j_s 14y agohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_number_(programming)#Magic_debug_values http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_number_(programming)#Magi...