Binary Ninja for Reverse Engineers

TIME: 06:00 to 14:00 CEST/GMT-4

Exclusive for HITB, this class will include the first-ever deep-dive into Vector 35’s PwnAdventure hacking game series. PwnAdventure is a series of games designed to be hacked, and will put your new reverse engineering knowledge to the test..

This course is for reverse engineers, researchers, and analysts looking to level up with Binary Ninja. It provides a comprehensive tour of Binary Ninja’s powerful core analysis features, alongside an opinionated guide of the reverse engineering process. We’ll show you all the common workflows you might be familiar with in other tools, and how to leverage Binary Ninja’s additional capabilities to do them faster than ever. Wherever you are, this course will boost your reversing skills.

We’ll also explore performing actions through Binary Ninja’s extremely ergonomic Python API, and how to use or extend its analysis results to accelerate your reverse engineering process. All-in-all, this class will cover everything you need to get the most out of your new best friend!

Topics Covered

• Simple crackmes
• How to read Binary Ninja’s ILs
• Binary annotation / interaction
• Structuring data
• Migrating from other tools
• Finding data and references
• Source-to-sink analysis in Binary Ninja
• Binary patching / transforms / unpacking
• Using and automating the debugger
• Scripting queries for binaries
• Single Static Assignment form
• Dataflow analysis
• Interprocedural analysis
• Writing plugins for Binary Ninja
• And more!

Depending on interest:

• Writing custom architecture plugins
• Supporting new binary formats
• Customizing analysis with workflows
• Batch processing

The topics covered in this class will be chosen by the students. As we know that not all Ninjas have the same background, this course has integrated jumping-off points that will allow us to delve deeper into the specific topics that you want to learn. Whatever your background, we’ve got you covered.