Re: shellcode -> asm?

["Eloy A. Paris" <peloy () chapus net>]

Don't know if this is what you are looking for, but let's try an
example:

Get http://www.immunitysec.com/GOBBLES/exploits/apache-scalp.c. The
shell code is in a the char array "shellcode". To see the code:

peloy@canaima:~$ gcc -g -o apache-scalp apache-scalp.c
peloy@canaima:~$ gdb ./apache-scalp
GNU gdb 2002-08-18-cvs
[...]
(gdb) x /10i shellcode
0x804ac20 <shellcode>:  mov    %esp,%edx
0x804ac22 <shellcode+2>:        sub    $0x10,%esp
0x804ac25 <shellcode+5>:        push   $0x10
0x804ac27 <shellcode+7>:        push   %esp
0x804ac28 <shellcode+8>:        push   %edx
0x804ac29 <shellcode+9>:        push   $0x0
0x804ac2b <shellcode+11>:       push   $0x0
0x804ac2d <shellcode+13>:       mov    $0x1f,%eax
0x804ac32 <shellcode+18>:       int    $0x80
0x804ac34 <shellcode+20>:       cmpb   $0x2,0x1(%edx)
(gdb)

The 'x' gdb command is your friend. It allows you to see anything the
way you want (instructions, bytes, words, strings, etc.) If you don't
have the source code you still use the 'x' command and give it '/i
memory_address' where memory_address is the place where the shell code
lives.

Cheers,

Eloy.-

On Tue, Oct 08, 2002 at 12:12:21PM -0700, Sean Zadig wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm doing some research into creating variants of common attacks, but I ran 
> into a problem of sorts. For most of the attacks I have, the shellcode 
> consists of the overflow and the actual malicious code that is run. I want 
> to be able to isolate the overflow from the rest of the shellcode and use 
> that to create attack variants. Problem is, I don't know where one ends and 
> the other begins! I figure if I turn the hex-encoded shellcode back into 
> assembly code, I could probably figure it out. I'm familiar with how to do 
> the reverse in gdb, but is it possible to do what I want? To restate: 
> shellcode -> asm is what I need. If this is a simple thing, my apologies - 
> but the security-basics list rejected my post =)
>   -Sean Zadig
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