Binary Ninja Blog

This month’s state of the Ninja contains the usual mid-month status updates, including a brief summary of previous and upcoming commits, sightings of Binary Ninja in the news and online, upcoming events, and a few special announcements.

The first special announcement is an opportunity for a free Binary Ninja license!

Escalate

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Last Month in Code

Here’s a quick summary of changes committed since Episode 9:

• Several crashes fixed (#833, #871, )
• PDB loading improved (additional file extensions handled properly)
• File format improvements
  • Several ELF parsing improvements, some architecture specific and including improved debug logging
• Several architecture improvements (disassembly, lifting, or dataflow):
  • Thumb2: Lifting fixes for instructions that modify PC
  • x86: push qword, sar,
  • MIPS: lb, relative jumps, added CFC0/CTC0
  • MIPSEL: pseudo instructions, endianness
• Core Improvements
  • GetInstructionAlignment callback added to Architecture
  • Fixed some missing string annotations (also)
• UI
  • Product status (updates, license renewal period, expired) UI element added

As always, any customers with a valid support license can follow along with our dev builds by switching update channels in preferences

Upcoming in Code

• Floating point IL as well as x87 and MIPS floating point lifting

In the News

Here’s some of the more recent sightings of Binary Ninja in presentations, write-ups, and other media:

• ret 2 systems has been on a tear with Binary Ninja related posts on their blog with decompiler dangers using a BN script to modify import ordinals, a new version of ripr that works without custom QT elements, and a nice writeup on dealing with a custom architecture from FlareOn
• bnpy an early architecture plugin for Python bytecode

Upcoming Events

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