cmemorybyteentropy

Adding and removing byte from a file in a loop


I'm a security researcher and am wondering how I could remove the added bytes from a file. This function below adds a byte every 4 bytes. But I'd like to know how I could remove those bytes as well. Need a function that will remove these bytes in the order they were added.

Travis

int AddByte(BYTE* bIn, BYTE* bOut, DWORD dwSize, int inc_every)
{
    int increased = 0;

    for (int i = 0; i < dwSize; i++)
    {
        *(bOut + increased) = *(bIn + i);
        increased++;

        if (i % inc_every == 0)
            increased += 1;
    }

    return increased;
}

Solution

  • int RemoveByte(BYTE* bIn, BYTE* bOut, DWORD dwSize, int inc_every)
    {
        int increased = 0;
    
        for (int i = 0; i < dwSize; i++)
        {
    
            if ((i - 1) % inc_every != 0)
            {
                 *(bOut + increased) = *(bIn + i);
                increased++;
            }
        }
    
        return increased;
    }
    

    Applying this function after AddByte() would give back the original string. Your original function has an offset of 1 (it will skip the second byte), so this function includes the same offset