Sandsifter software finds hidden instructions inside processors.

[skybuck2000 at hotmail.com]

Hi,

I hope you have the following newsgroup in case you are highly interested in knowing every last detail and every thought I have on this subject matter:

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt

There I have written some detailed postings.

In the other newsgroups I will constrain myself to the most important matter/summary of my activities, findings and productions for your usage.

The most important information I want to share with you is the following:

1. I was successfull in running SandSifter software with Linux Mint 18.2 booteable DVD, downloaded ISO from the internet and undocumented instructions have been found for AMD X2 3800+ Dual Core processor.

2. All files are available on my webdrive:

www.skybuck.org/SandSifter/

Explore the "unzipped folder" to see what it's all about.

3. I have written two tutorials how you can also run this software on your computer in case you have a DVD drive and DVD disc to burn this software onto.
One manual tutorial and one automatic tutorial. The automatic tutorial is the easiest one which I will post here, the automatic tutorial includes a run.sh script which I will also post here, this is to help you run this software on your machine, at the end of this posting I will discuss any possible risks to doing so in case you are worried.

Automatic tutorial:

Step 1. Download Linux Mint ISO (Successfully tested on Linux Mint 18.2 Sonya)

https://www.linuxmint.com/

Step 2. Burn Linux Mint ISO to DVD (Windows 7: Right click on file and choose burn to disc).

Step 3. Boot Linux Mint ISO from DVD (Restart computer, if needed go into bios and change boot order, or press F8 to bring up boot menu or something like that)

Step 4. Start FireFox Web Browser

Step 5. Download SandSifter software and extract to a folder.

https://github.com/xoreaxeaxeax/sandsifter

(Click "clone or download", then click "download zip", then click "open with archive manager", then click "extract" (top left icon), click "other locations", choose a harddisk or other storage
medium which is persistent, click on the storage medium, click create new folder (top right icon), name for folder could be "test", click "extract", click "show the files")

Enter the folder "sandsifter-master" by left clicking on it.

Step 6. Download Skybuck's Flying run.sh script file 

Download and save the "run.sh" script file to/inside the "sandsifter-master" folder.

http://www.skybuck.org/SandSifter/unzipped/run.sh

Step 7. Open terminal window and resize it to make it bigger

Right click in the empty space and choose "open in terminal"

A window and a prompt/blinking cursor should now come up looking similar to:

mint at mint /media/mint/Windows 7 System (New)/test/sandsifter-master $ 

Make the window bigger so that the summarize script at the end doesn't crash !

Drag and Drop the window at the bottom right corner to make it bigger (Hold the left mouse button to drag and make it bigger then let mouse button go)

Step 8. Run Skybuck's Flying Bash Script to install software and run SandSifter

type the following command:

bash ./run.sh

Step 9. Guide the software installation and upgrade process

Sometimes it will ask if you want to continue ? Press the Y key.

Once it's done installing SandSifter will automatically run and finally a summary will be created.

Step 10. Wait for the analysis to complete

Once you see instructions scrolling/flying over the screen go take a sleep and wait many hours until it is completely done.

Once it is done it will show something like: "May the Force be with you ! Always !" then you know the script is done !

Step 11. Do not open the log files !

The log files (in data folder) may be to big for the Linux Mint 18.2 text and office editors to handle ! This will probably crash/hang the system !

Step 12. Go into the data folder and send the files to the e-mail address:

xoreaxeaxeax at gmail.com


The run.sh script:

echo "Step 1. Install standard C library software"
sudo apt-get install libc6-dev

echo "Step 2. Install python pip"
sudo apt install python-pip

echo "Step 3. Update python pip"
sudo pip install --upgrade pip

echo "Step 4. Install setuptools"
sudo pip install setuptools

echo "Step 5. Install capstone binaries"
sudo apt-get install libcapstone3

echo "Step 6. Install capstone dev source"
sudo apt-get install libcapstone-dev

echo "Step 7. Install capstone python bindings (this will take a while)"
sudo pip install capstone

echo "Step 8. Make sandsifter"
make

echo "Step 9. Run sandsifter"
sudo ./sifter.py --unk --dis --len --sync --tick -- -P1 -t

echo "Step 10. Summarize"
./summarize.py data/log

echo ""
echo "Bash script"
echo "Version 0.01 created on 22 october 2017 by Skybuck Flying"
echo "To Install, Make, Run, Summarize SandSifter Software and Software Dependencies"
echo "Successfully tested on Linux Mint 18.2 Sonya on AMD Dual Core X2 3800+ processor"
echo "May the Force be with you ! Always ! =D"
echo "Have fun analyzing undocumented instructions !!!!"
echo "E-mail results to or contact: xoreaxeaxeax at gmail.com"
echo "^^^ !!! Author of SandSifter Software and interested in log files !!! ^^^"
echo ""

For now I will not discuss the collected data, this will have to be further analyzed, however I will say that the collected data is in this folder:

http://www.skybuck.org/SandSifter/unzipped/data/

The log file contains discovered undocumented instruction byte code sequences for further investigation. 

(Lastly I will try and collect the messages I write on this subject matter in the messages folder so you don't have to scavenge the usenet/web for all info;) a bit tricky but I will try at least :))

Bye,
  Skybuck.