Useful tools and techniques for Binary Exploitation
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The file command is useful to check what kind of file you have.
We can hexdump a file to get its actual values.
By using hexdump we can also get some information about the binary like the outlined parts of the image above.
We can use the man pages to get a fast ASCII table when we need to check some values.
Scan a file and print all printable character sequences with at least a certain length.
As shown above, the key for this license check binary could be found just using strings.
We can use objdump to read the disassembly, instead o gdb using objdump -M intel -d <program>.
Strace can be used to trace system calls and signals.
