No Symbols When Reversing No Problem Bring Your Own Max ‘Libra’ Kersten
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DEF CON 32 Creator Stage · Day 1 · Creator Stage
In the intricate world of binary analysis, the absence of symbolic information presents a significant hurdle for reverse engineers. Max 'Libra' Kersten's talk, "No Symbols When Reversing No Problem Bring Your Own," addresses this pervasive challenge by introducing a robust methodology and automated tools to recover function names and identify code overlap in stripped binaries. This presentation is a crucial contribution for malware researchers, vulnerability analysts, and anyone dealing with compiled code where original debugging symbols have been intentionally removed or were never present.