How to Grow a TREE from CBASS

Explore advanced binary analysis techniques and their practical applications in reverse engineering through this 56-minute conference talk from Black Hat USA 2013. Discover the Cross-platform Binary Automated Symbolic-execution System (CBASS) and its interactive application, the Taint-enabled Reverse Engineering Environment (TREE). Learn how these tools overcome limitations in existing binary analysis techniques, offering cross-platform support, scalability for large programs, and seamless integration with popular reverse engineering environments. Gain insights into symbolic execution, concolic execution, and path pruning algorithms. Understand how TREE leverages IDA Pro's debugging infrastructure to automate trace generation across diverse platforms, including Windows kernel mode tracing. Examine real-world vulnerability analysis case studies demonstrating the practical applications of these innovative tools in reverse engineering and security research.