Reverse Engineering Tools on Linux - Security & Cryptography

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kirby
Long time nixers
This is a long time coming, sorry.

angr

angr is a Python symbolic execution engine framework. Symbolic execution is a very interesting field and not one that any of the other tools here provide to my knowledge. The Wikipedia page likely explains it better than I can, but in essence it involves traversing a program and storing values as expressions of of other values. This allows the user to perform constraint solving to obtain possible values for unknown variables.

As an example, say you're doing a CrackMe. Instead of reversing the entire algorithm, you could work out how the stack is setup and replicate this in angr. You could then point angr at a start address and tell it to reach a certain end address - the 'success' one. Once it gets there, you have the state of the program stored as a Python object and can tell angr to solve for what the input that lead to this state - the key - was. There are plenty of examples of exactly this.

This is a very powerful tool when used correctly. That's the catch though - learning angr is no simple task outside of the most basic of examples such as what I provided, and the angr documentation is very lacking at the moment. It is being worked on, however, and in my 5 week period I spent with it, the documentation was actively updated and improved. Definitely worth a look at.

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I will look at PINCE in a week or two, it tries to download a newer version of GDB and I'd rather not mess around with my Debian install just for that, and my internet is too bad for me to bother setting up a VM at the moment.


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Reverse Engineering Tools on Linux - by kirby - 06-04-2016, 07:17 PM
RE: Reverse Engineering Tools on Linux - by venam - 07-04-2016, 12:36 AM
RE: Reverse Engineering Tools on Linux - by xero - 07-04-2016, 12:24 PM
RE: Reverse Engineering Tools on Linux - by acg - 07-04-2016, 10:57 PM
RE: Reverse Engineering Tools on Linux - by io86 - 08-04-2016, 10:06 AM
RE: Reverse Engineering Tools on Linux - by kirby - 08-04-2016, 11:20 AM
RE: Reverse Engineering Tools on Linux - by rain1 - 19-04-2016, 09:29 AM
RE: Reverse Engineering Tools on Linux - by venam - 10-05-2016, 02:22 AM
RE: Reverse Engineering Tools on Linux - by kirby - 15-05-2016, 09:47 PM
RE: Reverse Engineering Tools on Linux - by kirby - 05-08-2016, 04:43 PM
RE: Reverse Engineering Tools on Linux - by venam - 06-08-2016, 01:20 AM
RE: Reverse Engineering Tools on Linux - by jkl - 06-08-2016, 09:02 AM
RE: Reverse Engineering Tools on Linux - by xero - 09-08-2016, 04:47 PM
RE: Reverse Engineering Tools on Linux - by thlst - 10-08-2016, 01:27 AM
RE: Reverse Engineering Tools on Linux - by venam - 15-08-2016, 01:17 AM
RE: Reverse Engineering Tools on Linux - by kirby - 18-09-2016, 02:36 PM
RE: Reverse Engineering Tools on Linux - by venam - 19-08-2020, 03:42 AM
RE: Reverse Engineering Tools on Linux - by z3bra - 19-08-2020, 04:47 AM
RE: Reverse Engineering Tools on Linux - by opfez - 20-08-2020, 10:12 AM
RE: Reverse Engineering Tools on Linux - by freem - 21-08-2020, 05:24 AM
RE: Reverse Engineering Tools on Linux - by venam - 21-08-2020, 05:56 AM
RE: Reverse Engineering Tools on Linux - by jvarg - 28-08-2020, 11:17 AM