Questions tagged [decompile]
Process of translating an unstructured assembler program into a structured high-level language program (e.g. translation from x86 to C).
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Methods for preventing IDA decompiler
I want to write a C function, such that hex-rays decompiler will fail on it. I want to do it for study purposes, and not for an actual anti-reversing method. Do you have any recommendations/approaches ...
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Hex-Rays skips code
have using IDA Pro 6.8 (Hex-Rays 2.2), default settings.
Problem starts happens when i trying to analyze function (which actual size ~2886 bytes), pressing F5 (without errors or alerts) and getting ...
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How can one replace bitmap (image) inside exe?
I have an application (something like a text editor) that has a background image.
I understand how to replace text in exe file, but what about image?
I wonder how difficult and what is the way to ...
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(Help) APK Decomplied unreadable .pngs
I decompiled an Android game APK to look at the source code / resources and the .pngs give me the error "It looks like we don't support this file format" when I try to view them in the Photos App. I'...
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Turning p-code generated by VBA (Visual Basic for Applications) back into VBA
According to the README in https://github.com/bontchev/pcodedmp :
"As each VBA line is entered into the VBA editor, it is immediately compiled into p-code"
"when you open the source of a macro ...
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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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Taking a luac file and making a modification
I have a luac file for a program I use. I'd like to make a modification to this file to call a function from another luac script. My understanding of the way luac works is the first few bytes are the ...
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How do I reverse this firmware? 8-bit handheld console
I recently bought this chinese console that supposedly has 328 8-bit games. I want to understand the code and how it works to hack it and maybe load other ROMs. It has a chip covered in black epoxy ...
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How should I got about working out the format for this psp game?
I have been attempting to reverse engineer a format for a visual novel psp game ('Mirai Nikki RE: WRITE - 13 Ninme No Nikki Shoyuusha') and I have come to the understanding that the format works as a ...
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Android Reverse Engineering Network Traffic Stack Trace
Lets say an Android application sends out a traffic out to the server and expects a Json Response
Request:
https://server:port/userid=user1&token=randomstring7345
We want to replicate the ...
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How to override c++ string class with LD_PRELOAD
i am trying to override predefined functions such as strcmp, getenv, etc.
i already override some of them using LD_PRELOAD options.
but i can't override string class, how can i override c++ string ...
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Decompile a DLL file from Microsoft Media Creation Tool
In this Superuser topic Windows 10 Media Creation Tool, how does it work?, it is possible to extract the URL from SetupMgr.dll. My question is, how do I extract this URL from SetupMgr.dll? I want to ...
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Reversing C# exe,Questions.Help
I am trying to debugging c# .NET application which receives a set of doubles and keep it as DataSeries every second.
I want to rewrite its dataseries before the new data comes with my own dataset.
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Erlang Source file generation from .beam file
I have Erlang application's beam files which I want to decompile.
Application is Compiled and build with 'debug_info' options. here is snippet of emake file to which is used to build application :
{...
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What tool is able to analyze/decompile asm execution trace?
I got a trace of the execution from x64dbg and I need to analyze it. The problem is that the trace is quite large and there are quite big chunks of the code that repeat (I assume they are loops).
I ...
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Can we decompile an .exe or .dll as %100? [closed]
Can we decompile a .exe or .dll file as 100%? Also sometimes seems some
mistakes on somewhere (like mainfrm.cs) , how can we fix that?
What is the best .NET decompiler? or What would you prefer?
I ...
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Reverse engineer the update-binary file in Android recovery update packages
I am trying to understand how to disassemble or at least get a readable copy of the update-binary file located in /META-INF/com/google/android/. It is a modified version for a smartwatch, which ...
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I'd like to ask about unpacking aspack 2.12
I've tried to unpack program packed with aspack 2.12 manually by ollydbg,by setting breakpoint at RETN 0c. However whenever I tried to dump with ollydump, it sends error message like "unable to read ...
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How to assemble back a disassembled ChunkSpy LUA?
Is it possible to assemble back the ChunkSpy's dissembled LUA files? Here's an example:
0B50 05000000 [001] getglobal 0 0 ; script
0B54 C63E0000 [002] gettable 0 0 ...
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Decompiling 64bit ARMv8 Android .so library
I know IDA Pro can disassemble them to assembly code, but are there tools to decompile 64bit ARMv8 Android .so shared libraries to C?
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Why is IDAPython decompiler API returning the same effective address for both the current item and its parent?
Following this blog post, I am writing an IDAPython code to traverse the AST generated by the decompiler in order to extract some information. I am providing both my AST, the Python code and the ...
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Decompiling or Feature to Help Reverse FPU Instructions?
I've been running into a lot of FPU instructions from an old program I am trying to reverse engineer. It tends to be rather difficult to reverse when there is a huge section of FPU instructions, just ...
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Reassemble function that has its control flow chopped so that it can be decompiled by IDA
I try to decompile a function that is obfuscated by having split
up the controlflow into asmblocks scattered around the .text section
and connected by "jmpq" jumps.
<func1>:
0: insn..
1: ...
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Dlink DIR 600M firmware decompile issues
How to decompile the CGI & ROM files from the firmware bin? I am able to extract the HTML files using binwalk but the router OS and CGI files are missing.
NOTE: Its not the same as DIR 600
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Recover source code for C# .exe
I paid a freelancer programmer for an app to tun my clinic. He got about 95% of the project done, but then got a job elsewhere and vanished into thin air, along with my source code... So, I have a ...
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I'm decompiling an apk file to learn how the creator designed the UI for their app. Are these layout files obfuscated?
I'm new to decompiling apps. Most of the apps I decompile aren't very popular, so obfuscation hasn't been a problem yet. I'm not entirely sure what obfuscation looks like. The current app I'm looking ...
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Android - Analyzing complex hash algorithm
An APK I'm working on uses some sort of algorithm to generate a hash which is sent along with an HTTP request. I want to figure out how the algorithm works.
Decompiling the APK to Java is of no help ...
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Extracting a .DAT file
I want to extract a chunk of text available in an android app.
I disassembled the APK and found a .DAT file which seems to carry the text I'm looking for (the file was inside the directory res/raw/).
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How can I decompile an ARM Cortex-M0 .hex file to C++?
The source file is in intel 32 bit .hex format, it was built for a nuvoton NUC220LE3AE. I want to decompile it to C++, or at least assembly. I have some experience with assembly, but mostly with MIPS ...
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How to retrieve native asm code from .NET mixed mode dll file?
This is seriously one question I couldn't find the answer to anywhere on Google.com
When I mean mixed mode I mean .NET application which has unmanaged and managed code together.
I used tools
.NET ...
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ida decompiler output
double __cdecl sub_401660(float a1)
{
double v1; // st7@1
float v2; // ST00_4@1
float v4; // [sp+8h] [bp+4h]@1
float v5; // [sp+8h] [bp+4h]@1
v1 = a1;
LODWORD(v2) = 0x5F3759DF - (SLODWORD(...
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Decompiling/Unpacking a Compiled/Packed File (Or Somehow Inserting a Flag)
I'm using a program that can pack/compile a folder with files into a single *.xyz file that only that program can decompile and read. In order for the program to create a compiled file the flag:
[...
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Can IDA generate C code for ASM assembly wihtout the binary
Lets say I have this picture of some assembly:
Now I know how to manual tranform this assembly into C code because it is small but is it possible for IDA to convert this into C code? Ideally I would ...
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Jar reversing: Can't open as zip file nor open it with common decompilers
I'm pentesting a JNLP application composed by several .jar files. I'm able to decompile with jd-gui every 3rd party library included in it, but the main .jar coded by my client.
So after running JD-...
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Can Reverse Engineering produce code in a different language than the one the program was originally created?
Does Reverse Engineering always produces the source code in the same language the software was originally written?
For example, if the software program(.exe) been reversed was written in C++, the ...
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What does this combination SCAS and STOS?
I have a simple snippet with several instructions:
01: mov edi, [ebp+8]
02: mov edx, edi
03: xor eax, eax
04: or ecx, 0FFFFFFFFh
05: repne scasb
06: add ecx, 2
07: neg ...
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ADC in ARM : What is the corresponding C?
I have the following 2 ARM instructions in a basic block which is part of a function that I'm trying to convert to C.
ADDS r4, r2, r7
ADC r5, r3, r7, ASR#31
From my understanding, the first ...
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What are the risks of running a decompiler? [closed]
I have a binary file which is potentially a virus and I wish to look into its internals. I need to be cautious as I don't want it to run on my system. That's why I ruled out gdb.
I've searched and ...
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recompiling android app - native method not found
Been trying at this for over a week, and I'm able to modify the needed sections, however I'm running into a major issue while trying to recompile the APK that is making the whole task atrocious. So I'...
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Decompile ARM native binary - IDA Pro detects file as Shared Object
I am trying to decompile a Android ARM native binary using Hex-Rays IDA Pro. IDA detects the possible formats as
ELF for ARM (Shared object)
Binary file
If I choose ELF for ARM (Shared object), ...
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While Loop Correct?
I am reversing some x86 from an old CTF from 2014 and am trying to understand the below code (it has been shortened drastically). I believe it is performing some sort of while or for loop through a ...
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Changing .SO files in android cause to damage the apk [closed]
i created an android app(simple cocos2d-x project) that in this project i have a method that takes a string and then render it, in initialize state of my app i pass the "abcde" as parameter to this ...
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Error decompiling apk [closed]
Ive a problem.
I am unable to decompile a game apk successfully. I am using apktool.
I get many errors and but i get thw files. But then many of its smali files doesnt have a .end method in its code ...
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Cannot run game TERA crashes on mov dword ptr ds:[3],0Dh
My computer meets all the requirements to play this game, I even ran the tool that comes with this game and it passes all checks, even found my graphics card on the list.
The game's URL is http://tera....
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Could this be a Math.Min function decompiled in C?
I'm working with a function thats similar to Memory Resize like realloc / redim in VB.
The first 3 lines decompiled look like
char *__cdecl ExpandMemory(void *lpAddress, signed int StartPos, signed ...
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Basic Concept misunderstood? [duplicate]
First of all, it may be that I am just not getting how things work. Stultus sum.
I am using a Mac with OSX (10.9), therefore with x86_64 architecture.
I wanted to play around a bit with compilers ...
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Decompiling/disassembling lua bytecode
I've been experimenting with decompiling Lua bytecode and found useful tools like unluac, and LuaAssemblyTools. Unluac seems to do the trick with lua scripts compiled with luac giving me almost the ...
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In theory, Hex-Rays CAN Decompile 16-bit code. But how? [duplicate]
A while back i e-mailed Hex-Rays about decompiling (obtaining pseudocode) from 16-bit functions ( 16bit code ). They replied in theory it can be done. Others have succeded,
but Hex-Rays themselves ...
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How do i fine-tune Hex-Rays decompiler for 16-bit?
It is mentioned on the IDA Pro Hex-Rays site under decompiler error messages
16-bit functions are not supported
It goes on to say:
The decompiler itself CAN be fine tuned to decompile 16-bit ...
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How to call non-exported functions from dll?
I'm doing some reverse engineering of C++ dll.
What I have achieved so far - is have a list of all functions inside
and even source code (in pseudo-C or so) for most of them.
Reading this source code ...
