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Re: unpacking UPX or PE-packed binaries


From: Gadi Evron <ge () linuxbox org>
Date: Sat, 24 Apr 2004 16:34:55 +0200

Blue Boar wrote:
Karma wrote:

Just interested in how AV R&D companies unpack worms with complex UPX and PE
pack protocols.


The modified UPX packing is a pretty small change usually. Compare one with a standard UPX header for the same version. There are a variety of unpackers out there.

[Hey BB, 'sup? :)]

Having taken a look at the samples, they are indeed agobots (look a bit more like phatbots, but who can tell anymore?), but polymorphic ones (polybots).

Also, they are packed using PE-Crypt.Wonk, which would explain why upx -d didn't work.

        Gadi Evron.


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