This is a quick post on our adventures with binary ninja and the haySTACK challenge from this year’s CSAW 2021. On a lost evening @donnymaasland & @nebukatnetsar were playing around and said: Well this looks fun, let’s try it out with Binary Ninja.
I had totally forgotten about Binary Ninja, but boy oh boy do I still like it! Not that I forgot because I use other tools, mostly I forgot because I hardly do technical stuff nowadays. If you are not familiar with it, it is a reversing tool / framework which has a rich API if you use the native client.
The binja cloud version
The nice part is that it also include what they call “High Level IL” which basically is a decompiler that shows you ASM converted to pretty readable C like representation. The even more awesome part is that collaborating on the same binary is a breeze. You can work with multiple people in the same binary without needing to setup anything yourself, just need to make sure everyone has an account on https://cloud.binary.ninja
Let’s get started with the challenge, or more specific getting to know the cloud version of Binary Ninja by playing around with this challenge. We’ll cover some things like:
- Renaming variables
- Creating & applying enums
- Creating & applying structs
- Inviting others to collaborate
- Understanding the thought process
DiabloHorn 