augur

"In fact I've actually triggered buffer overflows by just entering my real name."

-- A.

Augur is a blazing fast IDA Pro headless plugin that extracts strings and related pseudo-code from a binary file. It stores pseudo-code of functions that reference strings in an organized directory tree.

Features

• Blazing fast, headless user experience courtesy of IDA Pro 9 and Binarly's idalib Rust bindings.
• Support for binary targets for any architecture implemented by IDA Pro's Hex-Rays decompiler.
• Decompilation feature based on the decompile_to_file API exported by haruspex.
• Pseudo-code of each function that references a specific string is stored in a separate directory.

Blog post

• https://security.humanativaspa.it/streamlining-vulnerability-research-with-ida-pro-and-rust (coming soon)

See also

• https://github.com/0xdea/rhabdomancer
• https://github.com/0xdea/haruspex
• https://docs.hex-rays.com/release-notes/9_0#headless-processing-with-idalib
• https://github.com/binarly-io/idalib

Installing

The easiest way to get the latest release is via crates.io:

1. Download, install, and configure IDA Pro (see https://hex-rays.com/ida-pro).
2. Download and extract the IDA SDK (see https://docs.hex-rays.com/developer-guide).
3. Install augur as follows:

   $ export IDASDKDIR=/path/to/idasdk90
   $ export IDADIR=/path/to/ida # if not set, the build script will check common locations
   $ cargo install augur
   

Compiling

Alternatively, you can build from source:

1. Download, install, and configure IDA Pro (see https://hex-rays.com/ida-pro).
2. Download and extract the IDA SDK (see https://docs.hex-rays.com/developer-guide).
3. Compile augur as follows:

   $ git clone https://github.com/0xdea/augur
   $ cd augur
   $ export IDASDKDIR=/path/to/idasdk90 # or edit .cargo/config.toml
   $ export IDADIR=/path/to/ida # if not set, the build script will check common locations
   $ cargo build --release
   

Usage

1. Make sure IDA Pro is properly configured with a valid license.
2. Run augur as follows:

   $ augur <binary_file>
   

3. Find the extracted pseudo-code of each decompiled function in the binary_file.str directory, organized by string:

   $ vim <binary_file>.str
   $ code <binary_file>.str
   

Tested with

• IDA Pro 9.0.241217 on macOS arm64 and Linux x64.

Note: only the unix target family is currently supported, check idalib documentation if you want to port it to windows yourself.

Changelog

• CHANGELOG.md

TODO

• Implement support for the windows target family.
• Allow users to choose to process string cross-references even if decompiler is unavailable.
• Implement functionality similar to https://github.com/joxeankoret/idamagicstrings.