Disasm options & filters

The upcoming version 0.9.4 of the Profiler introduces improvements to several disasm engines: ActionScript3, Dalvik, Java, MSIL. In particular it adds options, so that the user can decide whether to include file offsets and opcodes in the output.

Disasm options

The code indentation can be changed as well.

Another important addition is that these engines have been exposed as filters. This is especially noteworthy since byte code can sometimes be injected or stored outside of a method body, so that it is necessary to be able to disassemble raw data.

Disasm filters

Of course these filters can be used from Python too.

from Pro.Core import *

sp = proContext().currentScanProvider()
c = sp.getObjectStream()
c.setRange(0x2570, 0x10)

fstr = ""
c = applyFilters(c, fstr)

s = c.read(0, c.size()).decode("utf-8")
print(s)

Output:

/* 00000000 1A 00 8A+ */ const-string v0,  // string@018a (394)
/* 00000004 12 01     */ const/4 v1, #int 0 // #0
/* 00000006 12 22     */ const/4 v2, #int 2 // #2
/* 00000008 70 52 42+ */ invoke-direct {v3, v4, v0, v1, v2},  // method@0042 (66)
/* 0000000E 0E 00     */ return-void

In the future it will be possible to output a filter directly to NTTextStream, avoiding the need to read from NTContainer.

Stay tuned!

Java Class support

The upcoming 0.9.0 version of the Profiler adds support for Java class files. This will be especially useful for malware analysis. The support includes: disassembler, format views and layout ranges. Let’s see some screeshots of the format itself first.

Here’s a view of the constants:

Note: Utf8 strings are highlighted in orange just to distinguish them.

Here’s a view of the methods with their attributes:

And here’s the layout ranges view:

Again strings are in orange, while the actual code of a method is in a slightly lighter green than the method itself.

Since the format of class files is contiguous, it’s extremely easy to use layout ranges to create a new custom class file using the hex editor.

And finally, the disassembler:

The output shown in the screenshot above:

// SourceFile: HelloWorld.java

super class HelloWorld extends java.lang.Object
{

  static float f1;
  public static java.lang.String hello;

  HelloWorld()
  {
    // max_stack = 1  max_locals = 1
// line 1
    aload_0
    invokespecial java.lang.Object.() // returns void
    return
  }

  public static void main(java.lang.String[])
  {
    // max_stack = 7  max_locals = 6
// line 7
    ldc2_w 454.546
    dstore_1
// line 8
    ldc2_w 552441554577111995
    lstore_3
// line 9
    getstatic java.lang.System.out // java.io.PrintStream
    ldc "The value of i is: %f and %d"
    iconst_2
    anewarray java.lang.Object
    dup
    iconst_0
    getstatic HelloWorld.f1 // float
    invokestatic java.lang.Float.valueOf(float) // returns java.lang.Float
    aastore
    dup
    iconst_1
    lload_3
    invokestatic java.lang.Long.valueOf(long) // returns java.lang.Long
    aastore
    invokevirtual java.io.PrintStream.format(java.lang.Stringjava.lang.Object[]) // returns java.io.PrintStream
    pop
// line 10
    getstatic java.lang.System.out // java.io.PrintStream
    getstatic HelloWorld.hello // java.lang.String
    invokevirtual java.io.PrintStream.println(java.lang.String) // returns void
// line 13
    try
    {
      getstatic java.lang.System.out // java.io.PrintStream
      ldc "test2"
      invokevirtual java.io.PrintStream.println(java.lang.String) // returns void
    }
    catch (java.lang.Exception)  goto loc_57
// line 18
    goto loc_67
// line 15
loc_57:
    astore 5
// line 17
    getstatic java.lang.System.out // java.io.PrintStream
    ldc "error"
    invokevirtual java.io.PrintStream.println(java.lang.String) // returns void
// line 19
loc_67:
    return
  }

  static void ()
  {
    // max_stack = 1  max_locals = 0
// line 3
    ldc 43
    putstatic HelloWorld.f1 // float
// line 4
    ldc "Hello world!"
    putstatic HelloWorld.hello // java.lang.String
    return
  }

}

And the original source file:

class HelloWorld
{
  static float f1 = 43;
  public static String hello = "Hello world!";
  public static void main(String[] args)
  {
    double d1 = 454.545774;
    long l1 = 552441554577111995L;
    System.out.format("The value of i is: %f and %d", f1, l1);
    System.out.println(hello);
    try
    {
      System.out.println("test2");
    }
    catch (Exception e)
    {
      System.out.println("error");
    }
  }
}

There’s yet more to come. Stay tuned. 🙂