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REcon 2013 - The Future of RE : Dynamic Binary Visualization (Christopher Domas)

Sébastien Duquette · 9.5K views · 2014-08-25 · 1:03:22

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Overview

Christopher Domas's REcon 2013 talk on dynamic binary visualization for reverse engineering. He shows how rendering binary data as interactive visual maps and trigraphs reveals structure that hex dumps hide, leading to his Cantor.dust tool.

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HN commenters say it permanently changed how they think about inspecting binary data, and point to it as the origin of visual binary analysis tools.

Recommended by 3 HN people across 3 months · HN mentions 2015–2024

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Security & hackingData visualization & information design
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reverse engineeringbinary visualizationcantor.dustsecurityrecon

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LargoLasskhyfv · 2017-01 · Strong recommendation

Maybe it's a matter of tooling. I don't want to appear disrespectful, but after having seen Christopher Domas present "The Future of RE: Dynamic Binary Visualization" my mind was forever blown. Working with hexdumps, debuggers, disassemblers etc. seems so stone-agey compared to that. Like so much in IT in general. Anyways, caveman CAN more than crawl, obviously ;-) So, if you have up to an hour of time to waste, maybe you can have your mind blown to cantor dust too? [LINK] [VIDEO] Something very similar seems to be developed here: [LINK] Happy New Cyber! edit: spelling

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hoosieree · 2024-09 · Recommendation

Have you checked out this demo? [VIDEO] The 3d pan/tilt/zoom visualizations of the trigraphs are especially nice to look at.

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oldmanludd · 2023-11 · Recommendation

I don't think it's quite what you're looking for but cantor.dust is an interesting visualization tool for binary data. Security conference presentation from a decade ago: [VIDEO] Release of open-source Ghidra plugin in 2020: [LINK]

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