Sum Total of ISA Knowledge - Analyzing Your Binary Analysis Tools

Explore the challenges and solutions in reverse engineering embedded targets without hardware debug support or correct emulation in this 31-minute conference talk from Recon Conference. Delve into static analysis techniques and learn about recent tools that lift architecture to intermediate representation (IR) for solver or emulator use. Examine the limitations of these tools in supporting niche architectures and discover how to apply program analysis techniques to evaluate the architecture support of popular emulators and lifters. Learn about black-box fuzzing, binary symbolic execution, and hybrid approaches to measure tool capabilities. Understand how to generate verification conditions for ensuring meaningful analysis results. Gain insights into selectively applying dynamic analysis tools to low-level firmware with increased confidence in output accuracy.