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    Exercise 0 – Intro to x86 assembly

    README.1ST:

    1. Please make sure to fill out the course questionnaire as soon as possible.
    2. Please make sure you have gotten access to your Box.com folder well before you intend to
    submit your exercise.
    3. Please read the exercise submission guidelines before submitting your solution.
    4. Please provide any tools, scripts, code, IDA idb files or reversing notes.
    5. If you use code/data/etc. from an external source – please be clear in mentioning that source in
    comments / readme file accompanying your code.

    Your task, should you choose to accept it:

    1. VM Setup:
    a. Download the VirtualBox software
    b. Go to http://course.cs.tau.ac.il/infosec15/instructions and download the virtual
    c. machine binary.
    d. Unpack it using ‘tar zxvf infosec14_VM.tar.gz’.
    e. Open the virtual machine binary using VirtualBox.
    f. Login to your ‘student’ account with the password ‘do or do not there is no try’
    g. Use ‘passwd’ to change your password. (Now write it down so you don’t forget).
    h. Use ‘ls –lrt’ to view your home directory.
    i. Make sure there is no directory named ~/ex00/. If it exists, get rid of it somehow.
    j. (commands: mv/rm/rmdir).
    k. Download ex00.png from the website
    l. Run the following cmd:
    m. ex_unpack ex00_0.bin ~/ex00/
    n. There should now be an ~/ex00 directory.
    o. Go into it and find the example.c file (more info in the next segment).

    Notes:
    For the next questions you will need to write and debug x86 Assembly code.
    You should definitely test your code before submitting, but we highly recommend developing
    code with the compiler and debugger to verify what works and what doesn’t along the way.
    Please use the example.c file as a template to start your journey a little more quickly.
    Helpful commands:
    “gcc -ansi -Wall -pedantic -g -masm=intel example.c -o example”
    “gdb ./example”

    Intel-style assembly “cheat-sheet”:


    http://www.jegerlehner.ch/intel/IntelCodeTable.pdf
    GDB commands can be understood by using the built-in help menus or any GDB cheat-sheets
    (i.e.: http://goo.gl/9ZZ7AP).

    2. Write a small assembly program that factors composite (non-prime) numbers.


    (Number to factor is stored in ebx at the start of execution, result should be placed in eax at the
    end of execution. Result should be the first (lowest positive) factor or the number itself if no
    factors were found. All invalid input should return 0).
    Notes:
    Please submit your solution as q_02.c (a c file with inline assembly, based on example.c from
    the ex_pack).
    Your code should start at the place indicated by comment “your code here”, and not include
    any set-up instructions (if you wish to test your code, you may use dbg to set register values
    with the command “set $register = value”, e.g.: “set $ebx=14”).

    3. Write a small assembly program that calculates the n-th Fibonacci number
    (N is stored in ebx at the start of execution, result should be stored in eax at the end of
    execution. All invalid input should return 0).
    Write a non-recursive solution (+10 bonus points if you supply a working recursive solution in
    addition a working non-recursive solution).
    Notes:
    Please submit your solution as q_03.c (a c file with inline assembly, based on example.c from
    the ex_pack). If you wish to collect the bonus, please submit q_03_bonus.c as well.
    Your code should start at the place indicated by comment “your code here”, and not include
    any set-up instructions (if you wish to test your code, you may use dbg to set register values
    with the command “set $register = value”, e.g.: “set $ebx=14”).

    4. Read the following assembly code:

    MOV ECX, 0
    XOR EDX, EDX
    label_1:
    CMP [ESI], DL
    JZ label_2
    INC ECX
    INC ESI
    JMP label_1
    label_2:
    NOP

    a. What are its input arguments? What is its output?


    b. What is the purpose of this small program? (Hint: string representation)

    Notes:
    Please submit your solution as q_04.txt.
    A clear, *complete* and concise answer is best.

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