CSAW 2012 Writeup - Trivia Challenges

There were five challenges in the Trivia category, each weighs 100 points:


1) What is the first step of owning a target?
2) What is the name of the Google’s dynamic malware analysis tool for Android applications?
3) What is the x86 opcode for and al, 0×24? Put your answer in the form 0xFFFF.
4) Who was the first security researcher to publish the DEP bypass that utilized WriteProcessMemory()?
5) What is the name of Microsoft’s sophisticated distributed fuzzing system that utilizes automated debugging, taint analysis, model building, and constaint solving?


1) What is the first step of owning a target?
Key: recon

2) What is the name of the Google’s dynamic malware analysis tool for Android applications?
Refer: http://siliconangle.com/blog/2012/07/23/google-bouncer-researchers-fingerprint-androids-anti-malware-tool/
Key: bouncer

3) What is the x86 opcode for and al, 0×24? Put your answer in the form 0xFFFF.
I used msf's nasm_shell.rb to get the opcode.
Key: 0x2424

4) Who was the first security researcher to publish the DEP bypass that utilized WriteProcessMemory()?
Refer: http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2010/Mar/att-553/Windows-DEP-WPM.txt
Key: Spencer Pratt

5) What is the name of Microsoft’s sophisticated distributed fuzzing system that utilizes automated debugging, taint analysis, model building, and constaint solving?
Refer: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/atg/ndss2008.pdf
Key: SAGE