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Reversing Go Binaries Like a Pro

posted by n1 on Tuesday December 20 2016, @03:46AM   Printer-friendly
from the do-not-parse-go dept.

"exec" writes:

Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:

GO binaries are weird, or at least, that is where this all started out. While delving into some Linux malware named Rex, I came to the realization that I might need to understand more than I wanted to. Just the prior week I had been reversing Linux Lady which was also written in GO, however it was not a stripped binary so it was pretty easy. Clearly the binary was rather large, many extra methods I didn't care about - though I really just didn't understand why. To be honest - I still haven't fully dug into the Golang code and have yet to really write much code in Go, so take this information at face value as some of it might be incorrect; this is just my experience while reversing some ELF Go binaries! If you don't want to read the whole page, or scroll to the bottom to get a link to the full repo, just go here.

-- submitted from IRC

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  • (Score: 2) by FatPhil on Tuesday December 20 2016, @09:07AM

    by FatPhil (863) <reversethis-{if.fdsa} {ta} {tnelyos-cp}> on Tuesday December 20 2016, @09:07AM (#443639) Homepage
    First off, not only do you want a comma after "First off", but you also need an apostrophe for the contraction "it's".

    Secondly, why are you so insecure that feel that you need to granstand your sneering at others' choice of operating system? Does doing so make you feel superior, somehow?

    I work for a company where the software we write runs 99.99% on linux machines. Half of our devs use macs (we have a "chose your own machine" policy with a "just remember that you'll be adminning it yourself, so chose wisely" rider), as that's what they consider themselves most productive on. The manufacturer of the keyboard an engineer types on says nothing about the worth of that which is typed.
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  • (Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Tuesday December 20 2016, @03:06PM

    by tangomargarine (667) on Tuesday December 20 2016, @03:06PM (#443811)

    (we have a "chose your own machine" policy

    Choose ;) Technically, the official rule is that end-of-sentence punctuation goes inside quotes, too.

    Muphry's Law [wikipedia.org]

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    • (Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 20 2016, @04:56PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 20 2016, @04:56PM (#443879)

      You, GP, and GGP are loosers

    • (Score: 2) by FatPhil on Friday December 23 2016, @06:09PM

      by FatPhil (863) <reversethis-{if.fdsa} {ta} {tnelyos-cp}> on Friday December 23 2016, @06:09PM (#445132) Homepage
      > Technically, the official rule is that end-of-sentence punctuation goes inside quotes, too.

      Not in modern technical English. Correct punctuation (only mark up as a quote that which is a actually being quoted) is now favoured.
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