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MAL: Strings TryHackme Writeup
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Investigating “strings” within an application and why these values are important!
Motivation:
What you will learn after completing this Room:
- String analysis
- OSINT
- Static Analysis(Part of Malware Analysis)
What are “strings”?
From a programming perspective, “strings” is the term given for data handled by an application. At a broader view, these pieces of data are used to store information such as text to numerical values.
For example, let’s say we have an application such as a calculator. A user will have to input two numerical values (e.g. 1 and 5) combined with an operator (e.g. + or plus) addition in this case. These values will be stored as “strings”.
However “strings” can be stored within the application itself — where no input is necessary from the user. For example, using the example of usernames and passwords is a great representation of the many types of information that may be stored as a “string”.
