If you open the file in an editor it could mess up the binary part!

I can download another copy of the binary from the school network.

It looks like the script is failing right here, because the if statement is not passing the requirement and executing the binary portion of the file:

$lsb ...

Alright.

I created the lsb_release binary and placed it in the PATH found from the Bradford binary /usr/bin.

Now running the original BDA binary returns:

root[Download]# ./Bradford_Dissolvable_Agent.bin

./Bradford_Dissolvable_Agent.bin: line 78: ././Bradford_Dissolvable_Agent.bin.bin: cannot ...

All it does is connects to the school authentication server and notifies the network admins that my box is free of potential virii as well as the distro version. After it executes itself, it destroys itself, because its no longer necessary.

I'll try running the modified .bin file and I'll let you ...

Actually, I was mistaken. The file is actually a binary file (Bradford_Dissolvable_Agent.bin).

http://pastebin.org/116472

I'm having serious issues running the script. Apparently, one of the dependencies is lsb_release and the only form of it that I could really find is in .deb . Unfortunately, I have no clue how to build .deb packages on a Slackware based distro. Additionally, I lsb_release comes in .rpm packages ...