Re: The Mystery of the Duqu Framework

[Alberto Fabiano <alberto () computer org>]

Well,

   I'm suspecting that O'Caml is compiled with ocamlc, will analyze a
bit to confirm my suspicion.

[]s


On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 16:16, Laurelai <laurelai () oneechan org> wrote:
> On 3/10/2012 9:00 AM, 夜神　岩男 wrote:
> > On 03/10/2012 03:51 AM, fd () deserted net wrote:
> > > http://www.securelist.com/en/blog/667/The_Mystery_of_the_Duqu_Framework
> > >
> > > Haven't seen this (or much discussion around this) here yet, so I
> > > figured I'd share.
> >  From the description, it looks like someone pushed some code from a
> > Lisp[1] variant (like Common Lisp, which is preprocesed into ANSI C by
> > GCL, for example, before compilation) into a C++ DLL. Normal in the
> > deper end of Linux dev or Hurd communities, but definitely not standard
> > practice in any established industry that makes use of Windows.
> >
> > I could be wrong, I didn't take the time to walk myself through the
> > decompile with any thoroughness and compare it to code I generate.
> > Anyway, I have no idea the differences between how VC++ and g++ do
> > things -- so my analysis would probably be trash. But from the way the
> > Mr. Soumenkov describes things it seems this, or something similar,
> > could be the case and why the code doesn't conform to what's expected in
> > a C++ binary.
> >
> > -IY
> >
> > 1. [Caveat] I say "Lisp" but some other languages come to mind as well;
> > maybe Haskell would come out that way. I'm not sure because I'm most
> > familiar with Lisp and know it can be cobbled with C/C++ without
> > complications because of the way most of its C-based implementations
> > work. Anyway, if I were looking for a lock on how this code was
> > produced, I would ignore C-based languages and focus instead on
> > languages that behave this way natively first, because I think that's
> > the least exotic explanation for the features this segment of code exhibits.
> >
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