DDisasm is a fast disassembler which is accurate enough for the resulting assembly code to be reassembled. DDisasm is implemented using the datalog (souffle) declarative logic programming language to compile disassembly rules and heuristics. The disassembler first parses ELF file information and decodes a superset of possible instructions to create an initial set of datalog facts. These facts are analyzed to identify code location, symbolization, and function boundaries. The results of this analysis, a refined set of datalog facts, are then translated to the GTIRB intermediate representation for binary analysis and reverse engineering. The GTIRB pretty printer may then be used to pretty print the GTIRB to reassemblable assembly code.
Use the grammatech/ddisasm
Docker image to try out ddisasm quickly.
ddisasm uses C++17, and requires a compiler which supports that standard such as gcc 7, clang 6, or MSVC 2017.
To build and install ddisasm, the following requirements should be installed:
- gtirb
- gtirb-pprinter
- Capstone, version 4.0.1 or later
- Souffle, version 2.2
- Must be configured with support for 64 bit numbers (via
-DSOUFFLE_DOMAIN_64BIT=1during configuration)
- Must be configured with support for 64 bit numbers (via
- libehp, version 1.0.0 or higher
- LIEF, version 0.11.5 or higher
Note that these versions are newer than what your package manager may provide by default: This is true on Ubuntu 18, Debian 10, and others. Prefer building these dependencies from sources to avoid versioning problems. Alternatively, you can use the GrammaTech PPA to get the correct versions of the dependencies. See the GTIRB readme for instructions on using the GrammaTech PPA.
Use the following options to configure cmake:
-
You can tell CMake which compiler to use with
-DCMAKE_CXX_COMPILER=<compiler>. -
You can tell CMake about the paths to its dependencies as follows:
| Option | Use |
|---|---|
LIEF_ROOT |
Path to the LIEF installation dir |
gtirb_DIR |
Path to the GTIRB installation dir |
gtirb_pprinter_DIR |
Path to the gtirb-pprinter build dir |
- ddisasm can make use of GTIRB in static library form (instead of
shared library form, the default) if you use the flag
-DDDISASM_BUILD_SHARED_LIBS=OFF.
Once the dependencies are installed, you can configure and build as follows:
$ cmake ./ -Bbuild
$ cd build
$ make
One can selectively turn off ddisasm's various architecture support modules to speed up compilation time during development. For example:
$ cmake ./ -Bbuild -DDDISASM_ARM_64=OFF -DDDISASM_X86_32=OFF
will deactivate ARM_64 and X86_32 support.
For accelerated development of datalog logic, ddisasm can also execute the
souffle interpreter. To invoke the interpreter, specify a --debug-dir
directory path and the --intepreter parameter with the path of ddisasm's
datalog entry.
For example:
$ cd ddisasm/examples/ex1
$ make
$ mkdir dbg
$ ddisasm --debug-dir dbg --interpreter ../../src/datalog/main.dl --asm ex.s ex
See the GTIRB readme.
Once ddisasm is built, we can run complete analysis on a file by
calling build/bin/ddisasm'. For example, we can run the analysis on one
of the examples as follows:
cd build/bin && ./ddisasm ../../examples/ex1/ex --asm ex.s
Ddisasm accepts the following parameters:
--help
: produce help message
--ir arg
: GTIRB output file
--json arg
: GTIRB json output file
--asm arg
: ASM output file
--debug
: if the assembly code is printed, it is printed with debugging information
--debug-dir arg
: location to write CSV files for debugging
-K [ --keep-functions ] arg
: Print the given functions even if they are skipped by default (e.g. _start)
--self-diagnose
: This option is useful for debugging. Use relocation information to emit a self diagnosis
of the symbolization process. This option only works if the target
binary contains complete relocation information. You can enable
that in ld using the option --emit-relocs.
-F [ --skip-function-analysis ]
: Skip additional analyses to compute more precise function boundaries.
-j [ --threads ]
: Number of cores to use. It is set to the number of cores in the machine by default.
-I [ --interpreter ] arg
: Execute the souffle interpreter with the specified source file.
The directory tests/ contains the script reassemble_and_test.sh to
rewrite and test a complete project. reassemble_and_test.sh rebuilds
a project using the compiler and compiler flags specified in the
enviroment variables CC and CFLAGS (make -e), rewrites the binary
and run the project tests on the new binary.
We can rewrite ex1 as follows:
cd examples/ex1
make
ddisasm ex --asm ex.s
gcc ex.s -o ex_rewritten
The directory tests/ also contains a script test_small.sh for
rewriting the examples in /examples with different compilers and
optimization flags.
Please read the DDisasm Code of Conduct.
Please follow the Code Requirements in gtirb/CONTRIBUTING.
We ask that all contributors complete our Contributor License
Agreement (CLA), which can be found at
GrammaTech-CLA-ddisasm.pdfGTIRB.pdf,
and email the completed form to CLA@GrammaTech.com. Under this
agreement contributors retain the copyright to their work but grants
GrammaTech unlimited license to the work.
- Programming Language Group, The University of Sydney: Initial support for ARM64.
ddisasm generates the following AuxData tables:
| Key | Type | Purpose |
|---|---|---|
| binaryType | std::vector<std::string> |
A set of binary type descriptors e.g. for ELF whether the binary is PIE "DYN" or not, "EXEC". PE binaries have additional descriptors, "DLL" or "EXE, and subsystem descriptor, e.g. WINDOWS_GUI or WINDOWS_CUI. |
| comments | std::map<gtirb::Offset, std::string> |
Per-instruction comments. |
| ddisasmVersion | std::string |
The version of ddisasm used to produce the GTIRB. E.g. "1.5.3 (8533031c 2022-03-31) X64" represents version "1.5.3" compiled with commit "8533031c" with support for the "X64" ISA. |
| dynamicEntries | std::set<std::tuple<std::string, uint64_t>> |
Dynamic section entries: Name and value. |
| functionEntries | std::map<gtirb::UUID, std::set<gtirb::UUID>> |
UUIDs of the blocks that are entry points of each function. |
| functionBlocks | std::map<gtirb::UUID, std::set<gtirb::UUID>> |
UUIDs of the blocks that belong to each function. |
| functionNames | std::map<gtirb::UUID, gtirb::UUID> |
UUID of the symbol holding the string name of each function. |
| symbolForwarding | std::map<gtirb::UUID, gtirb::UUID> |
Map from symbols to other symbols. This table is used to forward symbols due to relocations or due to the use of plt and got tables. |
| encodings | std::map<gtirb::UUID, std::string> |
Map from (typed) data objects to the encoding of the data, expressed as a std::string containing an assembler encoding specifier: "string", "uleb128" or "sleb128". |
| sectionProperties | std::map<gtirb::UUID, std::tuple<uint64_t, uint64_t>> |
Map from section UUIDs to tuples with the section type and flags. |
| sectionIndex | std::map<uint64_t, gtirb::UUID> |
Map from ELF section indices to section UUIDs. |
| elfSymbolInfo | std::map<gtirb::UUID, std::tuple<uint64_t, std::string, std::string, std::string, uint64_t>> |
Map from symbol UUIDs to their ELF Symbol information containing the Size, Type, Binding, Visibility, and SectionIndex of the symbol. Type can be "NOTYPE", "OBJECT", "FUNC", etc. Binding can be "LOCAL", "GLOBAL", or "WEAK". Visibility can be "DEFAULT", "HIDDEN", "PROTECTED", etc. For a complete list of possible values see e.g. https://refspecs.linuxbase.org/elf/gabi4+/ch4.symtab.html |
| elfSymbolTabIdxInfo | std::map<gtirb::UUID, std::vector<std::tuple<std::string, uint64_t>>> |
Map from symbol UUIDs to symbol section information including the names of the symbol tables where the symbol was declared (typically ".dynsym" or ".symtab") and the index within that table. |
| elfSymbolVersions | std::map<gtirb::UUID, std::string> |
Map from symbol UUIDs to their ELF symbol version suffix if present. E.g. "@GLIBC_2.2.5". |
| cfiDirectives | std::map<gtirb::Offset, std::vector<std::tuple<std::string, std::vector<int64_t>, gtirb::UUID>>> |
Map from Offsets to vector of cfi directives. A cfi directive contains: a string describing the directive, a vector of numeric arguments, and an optional symbolic argument (represented with the UUID of the symbol). |
| libraries | std::vector<std::string> |
Names of the libraries that are needed. |
| libraryPaths | std::vector<std::string> |
Paths contained in the rpath of the binary. |
| padding | std::map<gtirb::Offset, uint64_t> |
Offset of padding in a ByteInterval and the padding length in bytes. |
| SCCs | std::map<gtirb::UUID, int64_t> |
The intra-procedural SCC identifier of each block |
| symbolicExpressionSizes | std::map<gtirb::Offset, uint64_t> |
Map from an Offset of a symbolic expression in a ByteInterval to its extent, a size in bytes. |
| peImportEntries | std::vector<std::tuple<uint64_t, int64_t, std::string, std::string>> |
List of tuples detailing an imported function address, ordinal, function name, and library names for PE. |
| peExportEntries | std::vector<std::tuple<uint64_t, int64_t, std::string>> |
List of tuples detailing an exported address, ordinal, and name for PE. |
| peImportedSymbols | std::vector<gtirb::UUID> |
UUIDs of the imported symbols for PE. |
| peExportedSymbols | std::vector<gtirb::UUID> |
UUIDs of the exported symbols for PE. |
| peResource | std::vector<std::tuple<std::vector<uint8_t>, gtirb::Offset, uint64_t>> |
List of PE resources. A resource header, data length, and data pointer. |
| souffleFacts | std::map<std::string, std::tuple<std::string, std::string>> |
Map of Souffle facts by relation name to their associated type signatures and CSV. |
| souffleOutputs | std::map<std::string, std::tuple<std::string, std::string>> |
Map of Souffle outputs by relation name to their associated type signatures and CSV. |