Binary Ninja Blog

We’ve just returned from a trip down the road to Miami, FL. What made us brave the road hazards and dangerous drivers in Miami? Why, our favorite conference: Infiltrate from Immunity. What makes Infiltrate so good? First, there’s no “lobby con”, but rather the whole conference feels like a lobby con but with much better food and drinks. Because the meals are provided and hang-out times are included, there’s plenty of opportunities to meet new, interesting people.

A number of folks have pointed out that the website hasn’t changed very much since we launched the product so we thought we’d remedy that. Not only do we have a changelog, but we’ve also launched our blog!

You might notice that the first entry from Andrew is a repost. He originally wrote it last year and published it under his personal blog, but we’ve polished it up a bit and are moving it here so we can have all of our Binary Ninja related blog posts in one place.

We plan a variety of types of blog posts. From brief overviews of our development plans and timelines, to in-depth technical discussions of core design decisions, to walk-throughs of specific features so keep an eye on this space.

Read on for an overview of what we’ve been up to these past few weeks.

For me, the fun in writing a disassembler drops off sharply after the first. It becomes just plain tedious. For our thumb2 disassembler, we looked for a more interesting way to construct one, and found benefits beyond reducing boredom: serviceability and accuracy.

Spoiler, what we’re doing is generating a disassembler from the ARM specification (spec) itself. This involves some intermediate steps and parsing, which we discuss below.