Research

Elfland Lately I’ve been thinking about Linux internals and malware. In this blog post, we’re going to hark about the ELFs. Just as Windows has its own executable format, so too does Linux. If we look at the source code1 to the Executable and Linkable Format specification in elf.h, we can see the definition of the ELF header and some of its core machinery to get an idea of how it works....

I’ve been somewhat mute here lately and haven’t updated my GitHub Pages in a while. However, I’ve been actively engaged in research and taking notes on a new sideblog on Blogspot. So, I’ve been writing a little Rust, Python, and C# code, exploring operating system internals. And utilizing aspects of .NET to do stuff on Windows. And occasionally, I’ve been analyzing malware.