Skip to content

Home

Jump to bottom
Rafał Leśniak edited this page May 5, 2016 · 4 revisions

Presentation

The ERESI Reverse Engineering Software Interface is a multi-architecture binary analysis framework with a domain-specific language tailored to reverse engineering and program manipulation.

  • Feature both user-mode and kernel-mode support for instrumentation, debugging and program analysis
  • Handle INTEL and SPARC machine programs (partial support for ARM, MIPS and ALPHA processors).
  • Designed for analysis of Operating Systems based on the Executable & Linking Format (ELF) in particular on the Linux OS.
  • Support many features on *BSD, Solaris, HP-UX, IRIX and BeOS.
  • Trace into any OS in a virtual machine or emulator using the GDB serial protocol.
  • Construct and display program graphs in native code as well as Intermediate Representation (IR) code
  • Does not need symbols or debug info to operate most of its features (but will use them if available in ELF/DWARF/STABS)
  • Inject or debug code that runs without executable data segment (PaX, Openwall, etc)
  • Prone modularity and reuse of code.

Want to help? See the features in progress or contact us!

Here are the main programs that compose the ERESI framework:

  • elfsh : An interactive and scriptable static program instrumentation tool for ELF binary files.
  • kernsh: An interactive and scriptable runtime kernel instrumentation tool for live code injection, modification and redirection.
  • e2dbg : An interactive and scriptable high-performance process debugger that works without standard OS debug API (without ptrace).
  • etrace : A scriptable runtime process tracer working at full frequency of execution without generating traps.
  • kedbg: An interactive and scriptable OS-wide debugger interfaced with the GDB server, VMware, Qemu, Boches and OpenOCD (JTAG) via the GDB serial protocol.
  • Evarista: A work-in-progress static binary program transformer entirely implemented in the ERESI language.

Beside those top-level components, ERESI contains various libraries that can be used from one of the previously mentioned tools, or in a standalone third-party program:

  • libelfsh : the binary manipulation library used by ELFsh, Kernsh, E2dbg, and Etrace.
  • libe2dbg : the embedded debugger library operating within the debuggee program.
  • libasm : the smart disassembling engine (x86, sparc, mips, arm) that gives both syntactic and semantic attributes to instructions and their operands.
  • libmjollnir : the control flow analysis and fingerprinting library.
  • librevm : the Runtime ERESI virtual machine, that contains the central runtime environment implementation of the framework.
  • libstderesi : the standard ERESI library containing more than 100 built-in analysis commands.
  • libaspect : the aspect library brings its API to reflect code and data structures in the ERESI language.
  • libedfmt : the ERESI debug format library which can convert dwarf and stabs debug formats to the ERESI debug format.
  • libetrace : the ERESI tracer library, on which Etrace is based.
  • libkernsh : the Kernel shell library is the kernel accessibility library on which Kernsh is based.
  • libgdbwrap : The GDB serial protocol library, for compatibility between ERESI and GDB/VMware/Boches/QeMu/OpenOCD.

You can take a look at our visual overview of ERESI.

Download the entire source code repository using git :

$> git clone https://github.com/thorkill/eresi

You can read technical articles if you are interested in the internals of ERESI. A list of all technical reports is also available.

Find more resources and API reference for each component on their individual page in the top-level menu.

For older news about ERESI, consult the news page.

Share and enjoy.

The ERESI team

Clone this wiki locally