Project Ideas Static Analysis of Binaries for Build Tracing

Static analysis of binaries for build tracing in TraceCode

TraceCode does system call tracing only today. The primary goal of this project is to create a tool that provides the same results as the strace-based tracing but would be using using ELF symbols, DWARF debug symbols, signatures or string matching to determine when and how a source code file is built in a binary using only a static analysis. The primary target should be Linux executables, though the code should be designed to be extensible to Windows PE and macOS Dylib and exes.

• Level

  • Advanced

• Tech

  • Python, Linux, ELFs, DWARFs, symbols, reversing

• URLS

  • https://github.com/nexB/tracecode-toolkit for the existing non-static tool
  • https://github.com/nexB/scancode-toolkit-contrib for some work in progress on binaries/symbols parsers/extractors

• Mentor

  • @pombredanne https://github.com/pombredanne