Reversing: Secrets of Reverse Engineering by Eilam Eldad

Author:Eilam, Eldad [Eilam, Eldad]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub, pdf
Publisher: Wiley
Published: 2008-04-20T22:00:00+00:00

It is not exactly clear what a malicious program could do at the firmware level, if anything, but the prospects are quite chilling. Malicious firmware would theoretically be included as a part of a larger malicious program and could be used to hide the existence of the malicious program from security and antivirus programs. It would compromise the integrity of the only trustworthy component in a computer system: the hardware. In reality, it would not be easy to implement this kind of attack. The contents of firmware update files made for Intel processors appear to be encrypted (with the decryption key hidden safely inside the processor), and their exact contents are not known. For more information on this topic see Malware: Fighting Malicious Code by Ed Skoudis and Lenny Zeltser [Skoudis].

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