CAPECattack pattern

CAPEC-167 White Box Reverse Engineering

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Abstraction
Standard
Status
Draft
Typical severity
Medium
CAPEC version
3.9

Description

An attacker discovers the structure, function, and composition of a type of computer software through white box analysis techniques. White box techniques involve methods which can be applied to a piece of software when an executable or some other compiled object can be directly subjected to analysis, revealing at least a portion of its machine instructions that can be observed upon execution.

Prerequisites

• Direct access to the object or software.

Related

Child of · CAPEC (1)

  • CAPEC-188 Reverse Engineering attack pattern

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-1323 Improper Management of Sensitive Trace Data weakness

Referenced by CAPEC · child of (4)

  • CAPEC-190 Reverse Engineer an Executable to Expose Assumed Hidden Functionality attack pattern
  • CAPEC-191 Read Sensitive Constants Within an Executable attack pattern
  • CAPEC-204 Lifting Sensitive Data Embedded in Cache attack pattern
  • CAPEC-37 Retrieve Embedded Sensitive Data attack pattern

Referenced by CWE · attack pattern (1)

  • CWE-1323 Improper Management of Sensitive Trace Data weakness