Taking Ghidra to the Next Level

This presentation examines work to modernize Ghidra by addressing historical bugs and user-experience problems, improving decompilation, patching P-code, and integrating GraalVM. It also discusses the lessons learned during development.

Syllabus

Intro
What are needed in reversing?
What we have now?
About Ghidra
BinCraft - Dedication (cont.)
BinCraft - what
ghidracraft - what done
About Decompilation
Ghidra Decompiler C++
Problems in Decompilation
Magic Functions
Default Var names
Analysis Failure
Minor Bugs
Pcode Patch
Modernized UI
What to be done
Graal VM impl. stages.
Lessons Learned