Practical Binary Analysis In Rust

My main interest(s) revolve around binary analysis and, since I've been working on learning Rust, this felt like a natural move. I'm also focusing my master's research around both, so it's a good starting point.

I've been meaning to work through some of the material in Practical Binary Analysis by Dennis Andriesse, which provides a C-based binary "loader". While their loader uses the GNU libbfd API which powers much of the binutils suite, I decided to use the object crate to keep my implementation in pure Rust.

What it does (and will do)

Only the skeleton of the loader is currently implemented which takes an ELF executable as input and prints the section names contained in it.

Functionality to come

• ELF Header Parsing
• Symbol Names
• Section digest (size, contents, type, etc.)
• Basic Analyses (CFG construction, dependencies, etc.)
• Searching?