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Capec-167 Detail

White Box Reverse Engineering

Standard Software Physical Security Hardware Typical Severity: Medium

Parents: 188

Children: 37 190 191 204

Threats: T60 T291

Tools: 10

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.

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External ID Source Link Description
CAPEC-167 capec https://capec.mitre.org/data/definitions/167.html
CWE-1323 cwe http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/1323.html

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  1. Direct access to the object or software.
  1. Reverse engineering of software requires varying tools and methods that enable the decompiling of executable or other compiled objects.

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