The cost analysis is extremely difficult to complete since time was often spent doing several tasks at once. The task was picked up late around the 10th of May 2002. The disassembly process was done on an almost daily basis of between 3 and 4 hours until the 27th.
A further 6 hours was spent writing up the reports (and putting the Analysis document into html).
Assuming a yearly salary of $70,000 ($33.65/Hr):
Hours
Cost / Hr.
Total Cost
-15%
+15%
Investigation
66
33.65
2221
1886
2554
Benefits (28%)
622
528
715
Total
2843
2414
3269
I am a recent IT graduate, with no workplace experience. All programming experience has been gained either through university or personal work.
I started working with assembly in 1997, moving into linux/freebsd-based assembly code 3 years ago. During this time, security has been a strong focus, particularly application security.
I have no official experience with system administration, relying on reports done by others in the past for general structure of this analysis report.
My interests in both security and assembly are the driving focus behind the analysis of the binary. (That and a lot of spare time).