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remove dynamic return address concept #1716

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please review and merge #1709 first

remove the return address concept, since it wasn't really used by any scripts or capa analysis. this reduces the amount of code to maintain.

i think the intent was to potentially assist analysts that encounter an interesting API call in mapping that back to the input binary. we can do this by recording more details, including return address, about API calls in the "layout", and then referencing this during rendering.

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@williballenthin williballenthin added enhancement New feature or request gsoc Work related to Google Summer of Code project. dynamic related to dynamic analysis flavor labels Aug 11, 2023
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I agree with this change. I think that the return address would likely change anyways (due to aslr and other factors), and is not a reliable way to point at features found in the sample. I also think that using the call's sequence number (CallAddress) is a better option(since two calls might have the same return address anyways, i.e. using a hashtable to make the call.

@yelhamer yelhamer merged commit 88aa17f into dynamic-feature-extraction Aug 15, 2023
@yelhamer yelhamer deleted the fix/issue-1697-2 branch August 15, 2023 06:55
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Thanks @williballenthin !

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