| Explanation & Hint:
The tool among the options provided that can be used by black hat hackers to reverse engineer binary files when writing exploits is WinDbg.
WinDbg is a multipurpose debugger for the Windows operating system, used by developers and IT professionals for debugging and analyzing the crash dumps to determine the cause of system crashes or application failures. However, like many powerful tools, it can also be misused by black hat hackers for reverse engineering purposes to understand how software works, which can aid in the creation of exploits by analyzing the binary for vulnerabilities.
- Firesheep: This is an extension for the Firefox web browser that uses a packet sniffer to intercept unencrypted cookies from certain websites (such as Facebook and Twitter) as they are transmitted over networks, allowing an attacker to carry out session hijacking attacks. It is not a tool for reverse engineering binary files or writing exploits in the context of analyzing binary code.
- AIDE (Advanced Intrusion Detection Environment): AIDE is a host-based intrusion detection system (HIDS) that is used to monitor and analyze the internals of a computing system. It typically works by detecting changes to files on the system, which can be indicative of a security breach. It’s not designed for reverse engineering or exploit development; instead, it’s intended for system integrity checking.
- Skipfish: This is an active web application security reconnaissance tool. It prepares an interactive sitemap for the targeted site by carrying out a recursive crawl and dictionary-based probes. The resulting map is then annotated with the output from a number of active (not purely passive) security checks. It’s not used for reverse engineering binaries but for finding vulnerabilities in web applications.
Out of the tools listed, only WinDbg is suited for the task of reverse engineering binary files, which can be a part of exploit development by analyzing how software operates at a binary level to find security flaws. |