Questions tagged [c]
General purpose programming language that uses the procedural and structured programming paradigm.
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How to find the index of static ilbrary functions in the PLT of the binary?
So right now I'm trying to resolve function calls and their names in my reversing tool
the problem I'm having is that library functions such as printf and fwrite and such do not have a corresponding ...
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Is the main function's name in the symbol table of C & C++ programs always 'main'? if not, how to find the name?
So I'm trying to write a reversing tool that parses symbol table to find the main function's address
right now all the binaries I'm checking the name of main function is still main in symbol table
...
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Changing pseudocode based on FPU fmul behaviour
A 3D software was compiled in which a typical x/4096f was translated as:
fmul ds:f4096
where f4096 equals to: 0.00024414062
Example decompiled pseudocode as-is:
skeletonMemoryPointer[i].pos = *(...
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Fuzz Test Suite for C/C++ Command Line Argument/Standard Input programs
I have implemented a basic coverage guided fuzzer that is sending inputs to programs accepting ONE command line argument or ONE standard input. I am trying to find a complex code to fuzz that can meet ...
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GetWindowLongPtr with undocumented nIndex of -1
I'm trying to reverse functionality of scrollbars in comctrl32.dll and I keep witnessing them calling GetWindowLongPtr function with undocumented index -1 as such:
Does anybody know what that ...
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Illegal instruction fault in stack based buffer overflow
I wrote this short C program to practice buffer overflow exploits:
#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <stddef.h>
#include <inttypes.h>
char *decode(char *s){
...
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Reverse engineering android native packer
im trying to Reverse engineering an android app and the app have 4 folders in the /data/data/{package} folder
├───app_dexprotector
│ 823517D25836B88F1C499C02370A047E.dat
│ ...
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How can I convert the following assembly code to pseudo code?
I got the following disassembly code in IDA pro. I really find it hard to convert it into pseudo code.
push ebp
mov ebp, esp
sub esp, 14h
mov dword ptr [ebp-14h], 1
mov dword ptr [ebp-10h], 2
mov ...
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How can I convert the following disassembly code to pseudo code or C code?
I used IDA pro to get the following disassembly code. I am having difficulty converting it into the equivalent c code.
mov dword ptr [ebp-8], 1
mov dword ptr [ebp-4], 0
loc_401014:
cmp dword ptr [...
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Reverse engineering a compression algorithm to decompress ASCII text (LZ-variant?)
Reposted from StackOverflow as is.
I'm trying to decompress a very long text block from an ARMv5t powered Gameboy Advance ROM, which was compressed using some kind of custom LZ-esque compression ...
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Is there any decompiler, which can produce a compilable result?
I would like to decompile a 32bit linux executable to C, modify some parts of it, and then compile it back. I do not care if the C code is not pretty and really hard to maintain. The only thing I care ...
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(CTF) Speed up assembly by hooking to an static function
For a CTF I have a fairly slow recursive function. I just need to cached the previous results in a dictionary and get them instead. I did it but had to reverse engineer the code. I was wondering if ...
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CreateThread returns true but thread doesn't run [closed]
I have a PE executable which uses threads to handle most of its functionality. It uses CreateThread API to spawn local threads to handle functions.
The call to the CreateThread returns a valid handle ...
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Which operators use sal, shl, sar or shr
Which operators in C language would result in assembly commands such as sal, shl, sar or shr for example?
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why code at .rodata executes [closed]
How come the following code executes if buf* is @ rodata segment ?
#include <stdio.h>
char *buf[] = {
"\x90\x90\x90\x90\x90\x90\x90\x90\x90\x90\x90\
\x90\x90\x90\x90\x90\x90\x90\x90\x90\x90\...
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How int3 looks like in C
This is assembly code that can catch debugger with int 3 :
MOV ECX, ExceptionHandler
MOV DWORD PTR FS:[0], ExceptionHandler
INT3
///there is debugger!!!
ExceptionHandler:
////no ...
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Why dont use memcpy? [closed]
Why using memcpy can cause to stack overFlow?
memcpy get the number of bytes to copy, so what is the problem , and how memcpy_s fix it?
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Why are there so much more functions in ida than my source code?
I am trying to learn how to use IDA Pro 6.8 to analyze binaries. However, there are much more functions in ida function list than my code. For example, there is a function in source code that calls ...
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How to convert assembly to pseudo code? [closed]
I have the following assembly. I don't know how to follow assembly. I was wondering if there is a way to convert assembly to a human readable pseudo code or better yet C code:
init:
mov eax, [ebp+...
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How can I intercept syscall libc function in C++ without writing any code in C file
How can intercept libc function in C++ using LD_PRELOAD. I want to write code only in C++ file and all the logic of symbol fishing (dlsym) must be in C++ file.
Please give an example.
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Finding the main function without symbols
for a C/C++ program compiled on windows using the x86 architecture, what is the best way to find the main function within disassembled code?
I've found various answers to questions similar to this, ...
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Can someone please help me reverse engineer this assembly code to C please! [closed]
I am really bad at understanding assembly code and the way it works. I have little problems given to me in Assembly code and I have to reverse engineer it to C, but I have been doing really bad job at ...
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Changing local variable in caller from callee in C?
I'm implementing a function which is going to perform some time-consuming task, and I'd like to hack the benchmarking part a bit by changing the variable indicating the CPU time my function has ...
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What does this assembly language program output?
I have been struggling with this for a long time. I have the following assembly language code:
.intel_syntax noprefix
.bits 32
.global asm0
asm0:
push ebp
mov ebp,esp
mov eax,DWORD ...
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How can I decompile the CC2650 .hex file to C?
I want to decompile it to C, or at least assembly the CC2650 hex file (Bluetooth Low Energy Sensor Tag), that provide TI.
My goal is to know the specific way used by CC2650 to generate the LTK.
I'll ...
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Purpose of test eax,eax after a strcmp
This is my first program i am trying to reverse and my intro to this field.
The C program will test if two strings match, and it will printf() a message for each occasion.
This is what the reversed ...
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problem with scanf/fgets in angr stdin exploration
I want to solve this very basic crackme using angr:
#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>
int main(int argc, char *argv[]) {
char buffer[64];
printf("Mot de passe:\n");
...
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Injecting exe file into process fails on windows 7 but works on windows 10 / Execution library function fails, access denied
I'm trying to inject my executable payload into remote process.
I allocated memory in remote process, I converted raw payload using RVA addressing. I applied relocations and imports table.
When I'm ...
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How to protect memory area, not segment or page!
I want to protect the certain memory area, like 0x12345678 ~ 0x12345679.
so if another thread accesses to that area, I want to generate exception.
To solve my problem, I've found and used ...
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Generate this assembly from a c program
I want to generate this assembly code:
mov ecx, <absolute address of func1>
call ecx
How can I write and compile C code which generates this code?
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Understanding Program Arguments on the Stack in Assembly
To self-teach myself reverse engineering, I am writing small C programs and reversing them in order to understands how the compiler sees my code. However, I am having quite tough time understanding ...
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Translating ida macros and pseudocode into C++/C
What would be the translated C output of this hexrays decompiler pseudocode? The values of v6 and v5 are floats just as v8. The value of xmmword_108365D0 is 7FFFFFFF7FFFFFFF7FFFFFFF7FFFFFFFh
v8 = (...
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How do I find out what section variables and strings are defined in?
Given a simple program like this,
void main (int argc, char * argv[] ) {
char * arr[] = {"foo", "bar", "baz"};
*(arr[0]) = 'F';
printf( "%s", arr[0] );
}
How do I find out what section ...
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Basic hello world stack manipulation troubles
I'm a beginner in reverse engineering, and as a beginner I started to read "Reverse Engineering for beginers".
Here is the hello world program from the book (taken from chapter 3, page 12) :
Now ...
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Reading from text file and printing it in IDA Pro
I have a text.txt file and I want to read it and print its content in the Output Window of IDA Pro (Free version).
I wrote an .idc script as follows:
#include <idc.idc>
static main() {
...
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Android- hiding private keys in .so file
I am working on an application where we need to encrypt certain assets at compile time in Gradle. We then need to decrypt them with the same private key, so we are using a symmetric key system but we ...
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ASM code hook/patching with trampoline function
I am stuck on making (my little self-task for learning) that thing:
Basically it should be something like Themida or VMProtect (do mutation, virtualization, etc.), but in my case,
i want to take ASM ...
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How can I deal with exception handler in Visual C/C++ inline assembly?
I have disassembled a function in IDA Pro and I want to compile it into my project in visual c inline assembly... I'm still a newbie, so let me apologize if I don't use the right terminology...(I'm ...
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Capstone: What's the purpose of the 'address' argument in cs_disasm()?
I'm trying to play around with the Capstone Disassembler in C.
In the documentation they show the following use of the cs_disasm() function:
from here
count = cs_disasm(handle, CODE, sizeof(CODE)-1, ...
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C representation of simple assembly
I have the following very simple X86 assembly:
shr cx, 1
jae short <addr>
So basically, the jump will be taken if the Carry flag is not set. In the case of shr, CF will be set to the value of ...
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Patching branch on assembly code
I compile this code
1. #include <stdio.h>
2. void F(int a, int b)
3. {
4. int c= a+b;
5. int d= a*b;
6. }
7. void printAll()
8. {
9. printf("test1");
10. printf("test2");
11. ...
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explain c compile code
I compile c code to arm with this site https://godbolt.org/
int F(int a, int b)
{
int c=0;
for(int i=0;i<=10;i++)
{
c+=a+b;
}
return c;
}
the result was
F(int, ...
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help needed to understand this pseudo code from ida and possibly recreate it
I've be on with the application for a while now and have pinpointed some interested functions, I would like to be able to implement them in to another application but I'm not sure how to get them "out"...
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Odd convention for accessing elements of an array?
While reverse engineering a game using the Hex Rays decompiler I was looking for how an array of NPC's was accessed. I found the array but I don't quite understand the unusual formula for getting the ...
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how to find the encryption algorithm?
I have an arm complied so file and find the decrypt function which pseudocode generated by IDA Pro is like this:
char __cdecl EncodeUtil::getDecryptStr()
{
int *v0; // r0
int *v1; // r7
...
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re-construction of c code: movsx with test instruction
I just started learning about reconstructing C code from assembler instructions.
I have the following piece of assembler code:
mov eax dword ptr [ebp+8]
add eax, dword ptr[ebp-4]
movsx ecx, byte ptr ...
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Decompiled code calls a function with unitialized variables
I'm working on decompiling the scripting engine from the game Rayman 2. It's going pretty well, but I'm getting stuck on a particular function which calls another function with arguments that aren't ...
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How can I see the heap data in ollydbg?
I have a C compiled binary that allocates an array of chars into the heap via HeapAlloc().
I would like to be able to see the allocated dynamic array in the heap using Ollydbg to be able to trace it ...
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Is there a static address to a pointer on Mac OS?
Given the sample code below:
#include <iostream>
struct Data {
int a;
int b;
int c;
};
int main() {
Data *d = new Data;
d->a = 1337;
d->b = 1338;
d->c = ...
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What does this assembly instruction do?
push %rbp
mov %rsp,%rbp
mov %rdi,-0x18(%rbp)
mov %rsi,-0x20(%rbp)
mov -0x18(%rbp),%rax
mov (%rax),%eax
mov %eax,-0x4(%rbp)
mov -0x20(%rbp),%rax
mov (%rax),%edx
mov -0x18(%...
