Questions tagged [python]
General-purpose and high-level programming language. Python supports multiple programming paradigms, including object-oriented, imperative and functional programming styles.
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Extracting arguments from IDA
Let's say I have the following function in IDA:
int __usercall function<eax>(char* message<ebp>, unsigned int count<edi>)
What's the fastest way to extract the argument information ...
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Decompiling .pyc files
Does anybody have a suggestion for (non commercial) software to decompile "byte-code" Python (.pyc) files?
Everything I've found seems to break...
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Reverse Engineering program written in Python, compiled with "freeze"
I am attempting to reverse engineer an EXE compiled using the utility "Freeze" or "pfreeze" that ships with Python (not to get confused with "cx_freeze"). Inside the EXE there is an array of memory ...
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How do you reverse engineer an EXE "compiled" with PyInstaller
Having recently watched/read a presentation given by Dave Kennedy at DEF CON 20 [PDF], I'd like to know how to decompile a Python script compiled with PyInstaller.
In his presentation, he is creating ...
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What are the tools to analyze Python (obfuscated) bytecode?
Recently on Reddit ReverseEngineering I stumbled on a self-modifying code in Python. Looking at the Github repository was quite instructive and I found picture of the Python bytecode program exposed ...
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Is it possible to get python bytecode without using co_code?
I posted this a while back on stackoverflow (too old to migrate though).
Say I am in the python interpreter and define a function as follows:
def h(a):
return a
If I want to look at the bytecode (...
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What are the techniques and tools to obfuscate Python programs?
This question is related to this other one. I just wonder what are the techniques applicable and which can be found in the real world to obfuscate Python program (similar questions can be found on ...
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Good training for IDAPython [closed]
I'm familiar with python and IDA in general. I found a few very basic tutorials but nothing that goes through an explanation of the classes used and the full capability set. Near as I can tell the ...
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Paste hex bytes into IDA Pro Hex View
Is it possible to paste a series of bytes into hex view of IDA? Say I have a large buffer I need to fill with a specific value, and I have it in the form most hex editors output... 0A AB EF FF 00 01......
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Adding a toolbar to IDA using PySide
So i'm trying to add a custom toolbar to IDA 6.4 using their PySide download and the IDAAPI. I've tried adding a toolbar by just creating one but since it doesn't have an exec_() method I can't get ...
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Best way to protect source code of .exe program running on Python?
I am developing proprietary software that would be distributed in a form of .exe file. In order to use it, users will have to authenticate with their whitelist credentials (username + password).
The ...
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What is the right way to pack a payload with Python3's pwntools
On the tutorial by Megabeets, "A journey into Radare 2 – Part 2: Exploitation", he shows an example of how to create a payload with Python2
# Initial payload
payload = "A"*140 # padding
ropchain = ...
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