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This is a 3 page paper that provides an overview of scanning for malicious code. A hypothetical scenario demonstrates how to explore entropy, system calls, and hex headers for suspicious content. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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are now making use of information technology, and most of them use computers to transmit at least some form of sensitive information, whether its banking account information, personal history, or
even just private correspondence with friends or partners. For this reason, malicious code now runs rampant, and software designed to stop systems from becoming "infected" with such code is now
a multi-million dollar industry. As the number of users of information technology increases, the average level of expertise of the common user decreases. For this reason, a popular method of
distributing malicious code in the contemporary online world is to disguise that malicious code as some form of desirable or helpful software. Ironically, an abundance of viruses are now transmitted
in the form of software that purports to protect ones system against the very threat it itself poses. For this reason, it is critical to be able to analyze the
internal workings of software in a reliable way, so that malicious code can be readily detected, regardless of what superficial trappings of normalcy adorn it. This paragraph helps the student
set up the paper. One helpful tool for exploring the internal code of software is Mandiant Red Curtain. For the purposes of this paper, this software will be used to
analyze the code of another piece of software, to demonstrate how programs such as Red Curtain can be used to derive helpful information from any executable. In this case, the
executable being examined is hspeak.exe. This particular executable is a compiler for an interpreted scripting language known as HamsterSpeak, used in game development projects. These projects are often expansive and
resource-intensive, so the potential losses associated with malicious code hiding in a compiler are immense. Examining the file under Red Curtain, the first thing one realizes is that the
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