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Find function in a stripped dynamic ELF library
There're two broad ways in which you can declare JNI functions.
The first is the more obvious way in which the JNI function has to follow a specific naming convention like JNIEXPORT void JNICALL ...
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In a Mach-O executable, how can I find which function a stub targets?
I wrote a Python script that parses entry points and imports from a Mach-O executable for one of my projects. The trick is to parse the LC_DYLD or LC_DYLD_ONLY loader commands. These two commands ...
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How to configure IDA to load .pdb files from Microsoft public symbol server?
It seems IDA recognizes _NT_SYMBOL_PATH so all you only need to is:
Start -> RUN -> RUNDLL32 sysdm.cpl,EditEnvironmentVariables
Under "System variables", add an entry named "_NT_SYMBOL_PATH" and set ...
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Symbols visible in EXE file without PDB
dynamic_cast requires a runtime check that the cast is valid at execution time and the usual implementation uses RTTI (Run-time type information) attached to all classes participating in the casts. ...
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How can you get the symbol visibility with radare?
afaik, Symbol Visibility is not available in radare2.
The closest to this you can get are the symbol bindings and types. You can do this with the is command which is responsible for showing symbols.
$...
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Radare can't seek to _start symbol
You can't seek to any symbol that shown by is, you can only seek to "flags" or addresses.
The f command is used to list all the flags from the selected flagspace. By default all the available ...
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Missing Symbols RtlGetFrame, RtlPushFrame, RtlPopFrame
Those functions are exported from ntdll.dll file. To link with those functions, add #pragma comment (lib, "ntdll.lib") in the source file. Or in Visual Studio, first check the active Configuration and ...
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How to load a PDB file into x64dbg?
You can use symload/loadsym command.
In the x64dbg console type:
symload pdbconsoleapplication1,symbols\pdbconsoleapplication1.pdb,[0/1]
With the last argument, you can control if the validation of ...
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ida identifies library function as regular function
There can be multiple reasons.
the FLIRT signatures which have been loaded automatically do not have a pattern for this specific function. You can check which signatures have been applied and try ...
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How can I view the dynamic symbol table of a running process?
The structure holding the list of loaded shared objects is called link_map and is stored inside the dynamic linker (rtld or ld.so, depending on the platform).
AFAIK there is no official standard for ...
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Rebuilding a symbol table for a firmware binary
It sounds like you aren't sure what you want to do exactly. Is there any part of the firmware you want to reverse engineer in particular? I suggest you first start by reading some blog posts on ...
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Resolving symbols of statically linked libraries in a binary
what do you mean by resolve? if one has access to a some flavor of *nix one could run the nm command on the binaries in question.
nm -a
That command will expose any symbols used in the binaries. ...
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Which libraries exist for PDB (symbol file) generation?
microsoft recently released some headers in github to help the clang / llvm toolset take a look Microsoft Pdb Information in GitHub
clang llvm codeview emission rfc mailing list thread
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Reuse symbols in disassembling/reassembling a C++ program
old question, but I think I can answer a part of it
why the name of symbol _ZTTSt14basic_ifstreamIcSt11char_traitsIcEE
modified to _ZTTSt14basic_ifstreamIcS
I think you've just run into as ...
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What is an "addend"?
Augend is a term that means a number that is subject to addition
Addend is the number that you will be adding.
From Dictionary.com,
Have you ever found yourself staring at a piece of paper with “3 ...
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IDA 7.0 (free) fails to load symbols with message "DWARF: Cannot determine location of DWARF info" during debugging
I fixed it by
Setting the environment variable
_NT_SYMBOL_PATH=srv*c:\pdb_cache*http://msdl.microsoft.com/download/symbols
then tick the "auto load PDB files" in Debugger Options
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What is an "addend"?
I think it just means "a number that's added", and in this case "the number that's added to the base load address (or segment load address) to compute the final pointer for this relocation".
Let's ...
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Why might nm find a few undefined symbols that I can't see with xxd?
The recent updates to the Mach-O format (the LC_DYLD_INFO_ONLY command) have an option of encoding the export symbol information as a trie structure. In such case it's possible that the symbol name ...
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Where Can I Get .PDB files for Windows OS Components?
official way is as pointed out by other answers use symchk.exe from windbg installation
but you can also fetch it by putting together few dbghelp and winsock functions
find below a poc that uses wget....
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How to retrieve name of a variable defined in the data segment in IDA when no process is attached?
You need to set ds to the actual segment value used by the program. Usually it's one of the segments near the end. I suggest you to check which of the segments has something fitting at 8401h, or try ...
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How to retrieve name of a variable defined in the data segment in IDA when no process is attached?
You can press Ctrl+G and check the different settings of the segment registers.
You can press Alt+G to edit the segment registers.
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IDA pro not showing function names properly
You can't simply name a function with these characters.
However, IDA can read mangled names and "demangle" them, showing their prototype with the C++ original symbols.
Basically, you want to write ...
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GCC is not recognizing symbol table in my hand-made ELF file
I tried running the same commands as you with the file you provided but it failed in the same way as yours. However with a newer hellow.c as such
char hello[] = "Hello World";
with the following ...
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IDA 7.0 (free) fails to load symbols with message "DWARF: Cannot determine location of DWARF info" during debugging
you must load pdb file when you pause this application, it must be paused state.
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How to find ELF symbol table reference?
Strangely enough, the position 096B3D47 is just a few lines above the above excerpt...
... and the instruction before that address is a call instruction. Right?
This kind of instructions is used for ...
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What is an "addend"?
Addend is simply "a number to be added to another", according to Merian Webster.
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What is the difference between a GLOBAL symbol and NONE?
PE Binding
"GLOBAL" and "NONE" are values of the "Bind" column in radare2's symbol table. As @blabb correctly described, whenever you look at the "Exports" through radare2 you'll see the value "...
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What is the difference between a GLOBAL symbol and NONE?
exported functions in a binary are denoted by GLOBAL
imported function in a binary are denoted by NONE
:\>rabin2 -i ..\..\miscinfo\Debug\tzinfo.dll | grep -i Mod
003 0x10016008 NONE FUNC KERNEL32....
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How to demangle symbols with starting with "@@"?
IDA demangles @@Unit1@Initialize as __linkproc__ Unit1::Initialize and looking for __linkproc__ yields some clues:
Modifiers (mutually exclusive)
UM_LINKER_PROC Special linker procedure (#pragma ...
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