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> your favorite reverse engineering suite, like Ghidra

I'm thrilled at the adoption Ghidra has gotten, and glad the NSA used my tax dollars to contribute something useful to the world

I also loved the trick of using objcopy to turn the bytes into an ELF; that's just damn crafty

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Pretty sure they could have used the "set image base" option under the memory map view to accomplish the same thing, but it's still a cool workaround nonetheless.

You're right! However, I don't remember the exact issue, but Ghidra behaves differently when loading a raw binary vs when you load an ELF file. Perhaps it was something with the analyzers, I can't recall (there are ELF-specific ones for example).

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