Re: [Full-disclosure] [Tool] DeepToad 1.1.0

[Joxean Koret <joxeankoret () yahoo es>]

Yes. It isn't designed to search for the differences between 2 binary files but to search for similar files, 
_independently_ of the format, and group them.

This tool can be used, in example, to search for similar "crapwares" or to search for similar image files (not similar 
looking, but similar files), similar office documents, etc...

--- El mar, 5/1/10, T Biehn <tbiehn () gmail com> escribió:

> De: T Biehn <tbiehn () gmail com>
> Asunto: Re: [Full-disclosure] [Tool] DeepToad 1.1.0
> Para: "Dan Kaminsky" <dan () doxpara com>
> CC: "Joxean Koret" <joxeankoret () yahoo es>, "Full Disclosure" <full-disclosure () lists grok org uk>, bugtraq () 
> securityfocus com
> Fecha: martes, 5 de enero, 2010 15:56
> I can see what you're saying, it
> could be useful for finding
> differences in different versions of the same binary but
> from what I
> can see Joxean's app is meant to group files of the same
> 'type,' not
> provide 'diff' capabilities.
>
> -Travis
>
> On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 9:51 AM, Dan Kaminsky <dan () doxpara com>
> wrote:
> > I looked into a fair amount of this sort of
> normalization back when I was
> > playing with dotplots.  The idea was to upgrade from
> simple Levenshtein
> > string comparison (with no knowledge of variable
> length x86 instructions,
> > pointers that shift from compile to compile, etc) to
> something with at least
> > some domain specific knowledge.  What I found,
> somewhat surprisingly, was
> > that dumb string comparison was more than enough.  In
> fact, when I compared
> > pre-patch and post-patch builds, it was easy to
> directly see when content
> > was added, removed, shifted in location, etc. 
> Joxean's going to have much
> > the same result -- as basic as his similarity metric
> is, he'll get the broad
> > strokes just fine.
> >
> > Ultimately the best approach is to build a graph of
> how functions interact
> > and measure graph isomorphism, but of course Halvar
> figured that out years
> > ago :)
> >
> > On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 3:41 PM, T Biehn <tbiehn () gmail com>
> wrote:
> > > Hmm,
> > > Wouldn't it be more useful to the sec community to
> have a algorithm
> > > that abstracts at the -interpreted- content level?
> That is when
> > > analyzing binaries I wouldn't think that this
> would classify two with
> > > near identical functionality together, even though
> it is removing a
> > > significant chunk of information during the hash
> pass.
> > > I would largely assume that your algorithm, as is,
> works best on
> > > uncompressed bitmaps. Is there something I'm
> missing?
> > > -Travis
> > >
> > > On Sun, Jan 3, 2010 at 6:37 AM, Joxean Koret
> <joxeankoret () yahoo es>
> wrote:
> > > > Hi all,
> > > >
> > > > I'm happy to announce the very first public
> release of the open source
> > > > project DeepToad, a tool for computing fuzzy
> hashes from files.
> > > > DeepToad can generate signatures, clusterize
> files and/or directories
> > > > and compare them. It's inspired in the very
> good tool ssdeep [1] and, in
> > > > fact, both projects are very similar.
> > > >
> > > > The complete project is written in pure
> python and is distributed under
> > > > the LGPL license [2].
> > > >
> > > > Links:
> > > > Project's Web Page http://code.google.com/p/deeptoad/
> > > > Download Web Page http://code.google.com/p/deeptoad/downloads/list
> > > > Wiki http://code.google.com/p/deeptoad/w/list
> > > >
> > > > References:
> > > > [1] http://ssdeep.sourceforge.net/
> > > > [2] http://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl.html
> > > >
> > > > Regards && Happy new year!
> > > > Joxean Koret
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