Dr. Dobb's is part of the Informa Tech Division of Informa PLC

This site is operated by a business or businesses owned by Informa PLC and all copyright resides with them. Informa PLC's registered office is 5 Howick Place, London SW1P 1WG. Registered in England and Wales. Number 8860726.


Channels ▼
RSS

Tools

Finding Binary Clones with Opstrings & Function Digests: Part III


September, 2005: Finding Binary Clones With Opstrings & Function Digests: Part III

(a)

int foo(int x, int y) {
    while (b(x,y))
        if (c(x,y)) 
           return 1;
    return 0;
}


(b)
004011F0               	@foo@8:
004011F0 56         		push	esi
004011F1 57        		push 	edi
004011F2 8BF2        		mov 	esi,edx
004011F4 8BF9        		mov 	edi,ecx
004011F6 E869FEFFFF      		call 	fn_00401064 ; _b
004011FB 85C0           		test 	eax,eax
004011FD 741A          		jz   	loc_00401219
004011FF             	loc_004011FF:
004011FF 8BD6            		mov 	edx,esi
00401201 8BCF            		mov 	ecx,edi
00401203 E857FEFFFF        		call 	fn_0040105F ; _c
00401208 85C0            		test	eax,eax
0040120A 7512         		jnz 	loc_0040121E
0040120C 8BD6          		mov 	edx,esi
0040120E 8BCF           		mov 	ecx,edi
00401210 E84FFEFFFF     		call 	fn_00401064 ; _b
00401215 85C0           		test 	eax,eax
00401217 75E6           		jnz  	loc_004011FF
00401219               	loc_00401219:
00401219 5F             		pop 	edi
0040121A 33C0           		xor 	eax,eax
0040121C 5E             		pop 	esi
0040121D C3             		ret
0040121E              	loc_0040121E:
0040121E 5F               		pop  	edi
0040121F B801000000        		mov 	eax,1
00401224 5E                		pop  	esi
00401225 C3                		ret


(c)
call,test,jz,loc,call,test,jnz,call,test,jnz,loc,xor,ret,loc,ret


(d)
EEC1E2A53DA3D4FCF3E57850F302412D


(e)
int bar(int x, int y, int z) {
    while (g(x,y,666))
        if (h(1234,x,y)) 
           return 1;
    return 0;
}

Figure 1: (a) A small C function; (b) disassembly of a compiled version; (c) its opstring; (d) its function digest; (e) and a slightly different C function that yields the same opstring and function digest.


Related Reading


More Insights






Currently we allow the following HTML tags in comments:

Single tags

These tags can be used alone and don't need an ending tag.

<br> Defines a single line break

<hr> Defines a horizontal line

Matching tags

These require an ending tag - e.g. <i>italic text</i>

<a> Defines an anchor

<b> Defines bold text

<big> Defines big text

<blockquote> Defines a long quotation

<caption> Defines a table caption

<cite> Defines a citation

<code> Defines computer code text

<em> Defines emphasized text

<fieldset> Defines a border around elements in a form

<h1> This is heading 1

<h2> This is heading 2

<h3> This is heading 3

<h4> This is heading 4

<h5> This is heading 5

<h6> This is heading 6

<i> Defines italic text

<p> Defines a paragraph

<pre> Defines preformatted text

<q> Defines a short quotation

<samp> Defines sample computer code text

<small> Defines small text

<span> Defines a section in a document

<s> Defines strikethrough text

<strike> Defines strikethrough text

<strong> Defines strong text

<sub> Defines subscripted text

<sup> Defines superscripted text

<u> Defines underlined text

Dr. Dobb's encourages readers to engage in spirited, healthy debate, including taking us to task. However, Dr. Dobb's moderates all comments posted to our site, and reserves the right to modify or remove any content that it determines to be derogatory, offensive, inflammatory, vulgar, irrelevant/off-topic, racist or obvious marketing or spam. Dr. Dobb's further reserves the right to disable the profile of any commenter participating in said activities.

 
Disqus Tips To upload an avatar photo, first complete your Disqus profile. | View the list of supported HTML tags you can use to style comments. | Please read our commenting policy.