The US NSA will release a free reverse engineering tool at the upcoming RSA Security Conference to be held in early March in San Francisco.
The name of the software is GHIDRA and technically, it is a disassembler. The application converts executable files into assembly code that can be analyzed by interested parties.
The NSA developed GHIDRA in the early 2000s and in recent years has shared it with other US government agencies. services που πρέπει να εξετάσουν την εσωτερική λειτουργία maliciousy or suspicious software.
The existence of GHIDRA was never a state secret, but we learned about this in March of 2017 when WikiLeaks published the Vault7, a collection of stolen CIA records. The CIA was one of the organizations that had access to the tool.
GHIDRA is written in Java, has a GUI and runs on Windows, Mac and Linux.
It can parse binaries for all major operating systems such as Windows, Mac, Linux, Android and iOS, while its modular architecture allows users to add packages if additional features are needed.
According to description by GHIDRA at the RSA conference intro session, the tool "includes all the features expected in high tech commercial tools, with new and expanded features developed by the NSA".
Users who have already tested GHIDRA report that it is slower than IDA, but its open nature allows for improvements, and the NSA will of course benefit from free maintenance of the application by the open source community code.
In total, the NSA has opened 32 projects and has an official GitHub account.
GHIDRA will be presented at the RSA conference on March 5 and is expected to be released shortly on the page -- of the organization but also in their account at GitHub.
_____________________
- What is RAID? Guide for Beginners
- What is Software, Hardware and Motherboard RAID? Guide for Beginners
