Countdown To Zero Day: Stuxnet And The Launch Of The World's First Digital Weapon - Plot & Excerpts
Outside, a grim forest of office towers rose in front of his window, obscuring his view of the pigeons and summer tourists ambling toward the steps of La Grande Arche. But Falliere wasn’t focused on the view. He was focused intently on making his first foray into Stuxnet’s complicated payload. It was early in August 2010, a mere two weeks into the Symantec team’s analysis of Stuxnet, before Chien and O’Murchu discovered the unprecedented number of zero days that were hiding in the worm. During these first two weeks, Falliere had been working with O’Murchu to analyze the malware’s large Windows .DLL, but he knew Stuxnet’s real secrets lay in its payload, and he was anxious to get at them. He had just returned from lunch with friends when he began digging through the payload files, separating each one out and trying to understand its format and structure. He noticed that one of them was a .DLL file with a familiar name. The Symantec researchers had by this point obtained copies of the Siemens Step 7 software, so Falliere scrolled through the Step 7 program files installed on his test system.
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