Angr, a powerful symbolic emulator, makes it possible to seize control over execution of someone else’s code; all you have to do is specify the search direction. Today you will learn how to find similar holes in applications using Angr; in addition, you will write an inline…
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Modologic. Decompiling proprietary Assembler into C++ code
This article describes the creation of a Hex-Rays-like decompiler for an exotic programming language used in the game “Pathologic”. You will learn how cross-compilation works and master the basics of the compilation theory so that you can write such a decompiler yourself.
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Modologic. Dissecting the Pathologic virtual machine
Many years ago, I was eager to understand how the game “Pathologic” actually works. But at that time, the format of its scripts was beyond my capacity. Today, I will show you how to crack the game engine to find out how its scripts operate.…
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Anger management. Welcome to Angr, a symbolic emulation framework
Angr is an unbelievably powerful emulator. This crossplatform tool supports all most popular architectures; using it, you can search for vulnerabilities both in PE32 on Linux and in router firmware on Windows. Let’s examine this binary analysis framework in more detail using Linux…
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