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Blackninja543
Blackninja543

Reputation: 3709

Reverse Engineering an ELF Binary

I have a binary from a potential exploit that was found on a server. I am interested in reversing it to see exactly what this binary was designed to attempt to exploit. My only problem is OBJDump and other similar programs will all return errors indicating that the file cannot be read. Hex dump shows that an ELF header does exist in the file however I am not proficient enough to identify if the ELF is properly build based purely off the hex.

Upvotes: 3

Views: 10060

Answers (1)

Igor Skochinsky
Igor Skochinsky

Reputation: 25318

Try IDA (Interactive Disassembler). Demo versions can open ELF files. (I'm not sure if freeware can, and it's Windows only). We work hard on making it accept damaged/deliberately corrupted files, so if it can't be loaded by IDA but works in the actual OS, I'll be interested in a sample.

Disclaimer: I work for Hex-Rays.

Upvotes: 3

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