Discovery of C++ data structures from binaries
Daniel J. Quinlan, Cory F. Cohen · 2010
This extended abstract presents the techniques to identify C++ data structures in binary executables. With respect to automated tools, this is a largely open problem and generally requires significant manual intervention, inspection, and tracing to establish. The techniques for manual evaluation of C++ data structures are well known, but tedious. Because of this manual handling, the results are error prone and sensitive to the time available and experience of the analyst. All of our work is accomplished using the ROSE compiler infrastructure.