The entry point

The ELF Virus Writing HOWTO: sparc-debian2.2-linux
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# 10. The entry point

| The longest part of the journey is said to be the passing of the gate.
| Marcus Terentius Varro

If we decide to leave `entry_point` as it is, we have to patch something else. One approach is to disassemble the code, starting at `entry_point`, find the first `call` (or `jmp`) and abuse it. This requires way too much intelligence for a virus, though. But then we are operating in a homogeneous environment, having one compiler and one C run-time library for all. The startup code should be the same for every executable.

Command: pre/sparc-debian2.2-linux/entry_point/gdb/Linux.sh

    #!/bin/bash
    pre/sparc-debian2.2-linux/entry_point/gdb_core.sh \
    | pre/sparc-debian2.2-linux/magic_elf/gdb_format.pl

We work on the shell found in A kingdom for a shell. The tool from Extracting e_entry retrieves the entry point. On some shells a `read` from a pipe opens a sub-shell, i.e. it does not export the variables to the surrounding scope. The `while` loop is executed just once. Its only purpose is to build a block for `read`.

Command: pre/sparc-debian2.2-linux/entry_point/gdb_core.sh

    #!/bin/bash
    shell=$( /bin/sed 1q \
    	out/sparc-debian2.2-linux/scanner/segment_padding/infect )

    tmp/sparc-debian2.2-linux/evil_magic/e_entry ${shell} \
    | while read entry_point offset
    do
      /bin/echo "[entry_point=${entry_point}]"
      /usr/bin/gdb ${shell} -q <<EOT 2>&1

    	break *0x${entry_point}
    	run
    	disassemble 0x${entry_point} 0x${entry_point}+0x100
    EOT
    done

Output: out/sparc-debian2.2-linux/entry_point/sh.gdb

    Starting program:             /bin/bash
    0x1f598 <_start>:             mov           %g0, %fp
    0x1f59c <_start+4>:           sub           %sp, 0x18, %sp
    0x1f5a0 <_start+8>:           ld            [ %sp + 0x58 ], %o1
    0x1f5a4 <_start+12>:          add           %sp, 0x5c, %o2
    0x1f5a8 <_start+16>:          sethi         %hi(0x1f400), %o0
    0x1f5ac <_start+20>:          sethi         %hi(0x1f400), %o3
    0x1f5b0 <_start+24>:          sethi         %hi(0x75000), %o4
    0x1f5b4 <_start+28>:          or            %o0, 0x2a4, %o0
    0x1f5b8 <_start+32>:          or            %o3, 0x174, %o3
    0x1f5bc <_start+36>:          or            %o4, 0x154, %o4
    0x1f5c0 <_start+40>:          mov           %g1, %o5
    0x1f5c4 <_start+44>:          call          0x9ab68 <__libc_start_main>
    0x1f5c8 <_start+48>:          nop
    0x1f5cc <_start+52>:          unimp         0

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