.debug_info section used for attribution

0001-01-01

The .debug_info section of an ELF file contains attributes that may yield clues useful for attribution:

DW_AT_producer - The version of compiler and flags used. DW_AT_language - The language of the source code file https://dwarfstd.org/languages.html DW_AT_name - The path to the source code file before compilation. DW_AT_comp_dir - The compilation directory.

This can be viewed with objdump:

objdump --dwarf=info /path/to/file

The DW_AT_name and DW_AT_comp_dir especially may yield clues such as the malware author’s home directory, or a project name.


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