Questions tagged [radare2]
Opensource reverse engineering framework to disassemble, debug, analyze, manipulate binary files and more.
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radare2 wrong output
I saw rasm2 giving different output each time for x64
Take a look at this:
C:\WINDOWS\system32>rasm2 -a x86 -b 64 -d "41f6c7FF"
test r15b, 0xff
C:\WINDOWS\system32>rasm2 -a x86 -b 64 "test ...
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Invert stack view in radare2
Is it possible to invert the stack view when debugging in radare2 such that higher addresses are at the top?
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How to view registers values in string
Is it possible that radare2 will show registers values also in strings ?
For example, when I run ar I am getting the liste of registers and I have:
rax = 0x000000042
Is there a way to also show ...
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radare2 shows main function arguments argv as pointer to char on the stack, not as pointer to pointer to char
Well, I've been digging around process command line arguments as well as environment variables a bit these last days, especially looking up the way main function arguments were pushed onto the stack. ...
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function call trace with radare2 or break on all function call
I want to script with python using r2pipe. Is there a way that when debugging I can break on each call function, thus I can get the parameter? What's more, I won't jump into system library.
Or is ...
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How to increment and decrement machine code in radare2?
I watched a video (I believe it was a talk by the author of radare2) of how to increment machine code in radare2 very easily, simply by hitting 'c' and then using + and - to respectively increment and ...
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How to write sequence of machine code in radare2?
I know how to write an opcode and how to increment and decrement machine code using plus and minus keys. However, how do I write a sequence of machine code at an offset?
E.g. if I want to write five ...
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crackme disassembly - are these local variables ever initialized?
I'm working on a crackme, where the objective is to find the valid password given a program. I'm using radare2 to reverse engineering the program. To do so, I need to enter a password that forces this ...
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When reopening file lose all information in radare2
I have problem with my radare2, when I try to reopen file in debug mode (ood) my radare loses all informations about that file.
any help to avoid this?
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How do I type in hex input into radare2 debug mode?
#include<stdio.h>
#include<stdlib.h>
int main() {
puts("Enter input: ");
char buf[100];
fgets(buf, 100, stdin);
printf("%s", buf);
}
Suppose I am debugging a program, such ...
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How to examine/edit stack memory contents using radare2 in debug mode?
How can i examine/edit stack contents using radare2, just like gdb ?
Is there a way to examine memory using $rbp or $rsp register like below.
x $rbp-10 <--- something like this which can dump from ...
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Passing hex strings to Radare2
I can quickly test hex string arguments in gdb like this:
r $'\x61\x61\x61\x61'
I'd like to do something similar in radare2 but all I can figure out is regular strings:
doo aaaa
I tried this but ...
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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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How to debug programs that load from another one? with radare2/gdb
I'm reversing engendering a plugin. This plugin is loaded into memory by the main program.
I disassemble the plugin with radare2 but I don't know how to debug it.
I try with gdb but same problem.
I ...
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Is there watchpoints in radare2?
Is there any way to put breakpoints in radare2 that trigger when an address is read/write?
In GDB those are call watchpoints ('rwatch' or 'awatch")
I got this from radare2
[0xB7F08810]> !dr?
...
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Reassembling reversed ASM
I am trying to reassemble code reversed from an executable using radare2. I have managed to extract the asm and am using nasm for reassembling.
The question is, the code also contains commands like
...
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What this “arw” line means when processing Mach-0 file with Radare2 or Rabin2?
Processing a Mach-0 file with Rabin2 I'm obtaining the following result:
$ rabin2 -I mybinaryfile
arw ...
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debugging with radare2
I am using radare2 for disassemble an x86 binary:
$ r2 ./mynbinary
[0x00001000]> aaa
...
[0x00001000]> pdf
;-- section..text:
;-- section.LOAD1:
;-- rip:
/ (...
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How to print eax value with Radare2?
I am solving a crack me challenge but I am stuck. The challenge executes several jne tests. The first test is the simpliest but I don't arrive to print the eax value to know the content of cmp ...
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What does layout of Cutter/Radare2's function dissasembly mean?
Cutter displays functions like this:
I'm having trouble understanding the layout of the functions
For example:
What does 184 mean?
What does the green | mean at the beginning of each line?
Why ...
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How to use aaa in radare2 while in -d (debug) mode?
This might be a stupid question, but I am trying to learn by myself and I encountered a problem which I cannot solve for the life of me. I tried googling and I can't find anything relevant, so here ...
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How to set a breakpoint in an execve'd program in radare2?
If I have a program A, which uses execve to run program B. How can I set a breakpoint in program B's main routine if I'm debugging program A?
After a certain point in the execve routine, program B ...
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Password is right, but still wrong?
i am trying to find the password of a binary with radare2 - a crackme again :-)
I already thought I've found the password ('pass'), but this seems to be not the right one. Or there is a trick I didn'...
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How to print the value of register with Radare 2
I am trying to solve this ELF - Ptrace challenge. I use Radare 2. This is the commands I execute to print the assembly code.
radare2 ch3.bin
[0x080482f0]> aaa
[[anal.jmptbl] Missing cjmp bb in ...
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Radare2 does not display the entire assembler code
I am trying to solve this ELF - Ptrace crack me. Here are the commands I use :
I start radare2 with the crack me as argument.
radare2 ch3.bin
I decide to go to the main and print the assembly code ...
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Setting register names in Radare2
I am reverse-engineering an 8051 architecture program of a specific chip.
The disassembly naturally doesn't contain any function names, and the register names are minimal. For example, address 0xb3 is ...
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how to use core file in radare2?
In gdb i can backtrace with core file and executable file.
It seems radare2 can read core file. like this
$ r2 core
Setting up coredump: asm.arch <-> x86 and asm.bits <-> 64
Setting up ...
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radare2 how to interpret ascii-art color bars?
I can't understand the meaning of ascii-art color bars.
what is the meaning of the # charaters?
[0x08000210]> iS=
00 0x08000000 |---------------------------------| 0x08000000 0 ---
01 ...
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Radare2 Disassembler How Do You Organize Visual Panels (V!)?
I would like to use Radare2 to learn about how C is assembled into assembly but I am having trouble with the layout. I think the V! mode would be very handy as you can watch the registers update as ...
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Function names syntax returned by radare2's afl?
Radare2's afl command returns function names with a specific syntax that I could not find documentation on:
For example:
radare2 -2 -A -q -c "aflj" C:/Windows/system32/advapi32.dll
0x77cce13c 22 ...
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Print string at address with radare2
I have created a very basic golang program which display a message with fmt.Println().
Here is what is see in radare2:
lea rcx, obj.main.statictmp_0 ; 0x4c84b0 ; "y[K"
mov qword [local_48h], rcx
lea ...
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How does this command modify the condition?
I'm new to radare2 here. Just started learning and I was trying out a challenge. What does the 3 columns in the radare2 visual mode represent?
May I know how the command below:
wa je 0x400976 @...
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rip adress not visible with dr command
I just finished this challenge. This is the content of main function :
[0x08048a86]> pdf
/ (fcn) main 417
| main (int argc, char **argv, char **envp);
| ; var int local_16h @ ebp-0x16
|...
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Debug point not hit with radare2
I am doing this reverse engenering challenge. I executed theses commands to analyse the main function :
radare2.exe ch15.exe
aaa
s main
pdf
This is the output of the pdf command :
[0x004017b8]> ...
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Why does -A (aaa) analysis show much more information, when using the -d (debug) CLI option in Radare2?
Why does -A (aaa) analysis show much more information, when using the -d (debug) CLI option in Radare2?
I'm using the newest version of Radare2 to analyze the Windows application.
As can be seen ...
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Impossible to execute a program with radare2 : TO DO continue
I am trying to crack a crackme. I already catch the flag because I seen the string variable which represants flag. I would like to catch the flag on an other way, I want to set a breakpoint when there ...
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Analyze all functions with radare2
I have a big library in which IDA found ~84300 functions but using aa in radare2 I was just able to found ~3000.
I tried setting anal.hasnext to true, anal.from and anal.to to the start and the end ...
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How to make Radare2 automatically disassemble next instruction after each `ds` debug single-step?
How to make Radare2 automatically disassemble next instruction after each ds debug single-step?
I thought that e asm.bytes=1 would achieve this, but that doesn't help.
In particular, GDB supports ...
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Radare2 doesn't update current address, when single-step debugging using `ds`?
Radare2 doesn't update current address, when single-step debugging using ds?
I'm debugging an ELF binary on Linux using single-step (ds). The problem is that the current address at the prompt doesn't ...
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How to get the memory-mapping (e.g. library) that contains a given address in Radare?
How to get the memory-mapping (e.g. library) that contains a given address in Radare?
I've done a search in Radare for a specific string (search.in = dbg.maps), which resulted in an address.
Now, I ...
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How to identify different memory regions of an elf binary in radare2?
I'm just starting out with reverse engineering, one thing I'm finding difficult is identifying different areas of memory. I'm using radare2, and I would like to be able to easily seek and identify ...
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Writing ELF headers in Radare?
Reading Keith Makan's, "Introduction to the ELF Format : The ELF Header", he modifies e_entry,
The e_entry field lists the offset in the file where the program should start executing.Normally it ...
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Make r2 -i <script> use python3 rather than python2
I have a r2 script that I'm running with r2 -i script.py test.x. By default this command uses python2. How can I get it to use python3? I couldn't find anything in the config.
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Radare's `aaaa` and -AA what does it do, exactly?
When I run aaa, Radare tells me,
[x] Use -AA or aaaa to perform additional experimental analysis.
But what does aaaa do? It's not documented under aa? nor aaa? nor
[0x000028e0]> aaa?
Usage: See ...
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Learning fine grained analysis in Radare with `a`?
The Radare community generally seems to look down upon simply running AAA or AAAA claiming that you need to instead learn the fine grained analysis and what they do. However, there seems to be no ...
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Writing a file with radare2 `w`?
Radare2 supports a w which writes a string.
w foobar write string 'foobar'
However, it doesn't seem to work for me,
$ touch foo
$ radare2 ./foo
w foobar
The file foo remains empty. Am ...
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How to save Radare2 Analysis?
How do I save a radare2 session after I did "aa"?
I know there is a command for saving a project, but this isn't working out for some reason (Ps PROJECTNAME). So I am looking for a way to save my ...
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Techniques for reversing (basic) hash function
Hi I'm relatively new to RE, and I'm using GDB and Radare2. As part of a crackme I'm trying to reverse a weak hash function that's a little too complicated for me to undo by hand. I've been trying to ...
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Does Radare offer the ability to invoke the linker and disassemble a function (import or reloc)?
Sometimes I'm doing static analysis outside of the debugger, and I want to see what a function that a symbol points to will do after the linker does runtime relocation. All I see in the disassembly is ...
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Does the Radare Debugger support STABS?
From the wiki on Stabs
stabs (sometimes written STABS) is a debugging data format for storing information about computer programs for use by symbolic and source-level debuggers.
Does Radare ...
