( FROM THE CAPSTONE README )
Capstone is a disassembly framework with the target of becoming the ultimate disasm engine for binary analysis and reversing in the security community.
Created by Nguyen Anh Quynh, then developed and maintained by a small community, Capstone offers some unparalleled features:
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Support multiple hardware architectures: ARM, ARM64 (ARMv8), Ethereum VM, M68K, Mips, MOS65XX, PPC, Sparc, SystemZ, TMS320C64X, M680X, XCore and X86 (including X86_64).
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Having clean/simple/lightweight/intuitive architecture-neutral API.
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Provide details on disassembled instruction (called “decomposer” by others).
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Provide semantics of the disassembled instruction, such as list of implicit registers read & written.
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Implemented in pure C language, with lightweight bindings for D, Clojure, F#, Common Lisp, Visual Basic, PHP, PowerShell, Emacs, Haskell, Perl, Python, Ruby, C#, NodeJS, Java, GO, C++, OCaml, Lua, Rust, Delphi, Free Pascal & Vala ready either in main code, or provided externally by the community.
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Native support for all popular platforms: Windows, Mac OSX, iOS, Android, Linux, *BSD, Solaris, etc.
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Thread-safe by design.
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Special support for embedding into firmware or OS kernel.
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High performance & suitable for malware analysis (capable of handling various X86 malware tricks).
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Distributed under the open source BSD license.
First install the capstone library from either https://github.com/aquynh/capstone or http://www.capstone-engine.org
Then:
gem install crabstone
Check the tests in Capstone for more examples. Here is "Hello World":
require 'crabstone'
include Crabstone
arm =
"\xED\xFF\xFF\xEB\x04\xe0\x2d\xe5\x00\x00\x00\x00\xe0\x83\x22" \
"\xe5\xf1\x02\x03\x0e\x00\x00\xa0\xe3\x02\x30\xc1\xe7\x00\x00\x53\xe3"
begin
cs = Disassembler.new(ARCH_ARM, MODE_ARM)
puts "Hello from Capstone v#{cs.version.join('.')}!"
puts 'Disasm:'
begin
cs.disasm(arm, 0x1000).each do |i|
printf("0x%x:\t%s\t\t%s\n", i.address, i.mnemonic, i.op_str)
end
rescue StandardError => e
raise "Disassembly error: #{e.message}"
ensure
cs.close
end
rescue StandardError => e
raise "Unable to open engine: #{e.message}"
end
If you feel like chipping in, especially with better tests or examples, or (please!!) documentation, fork and send me a pull req.
Library Author: Nguyen Anh Quynh
Binding Authors: Nguyen Anh Quynh, Tan Sheng Di, Ben Nagy, david942j
License: BSD style - details in the LICENSE file
(c) 2013 COSEINC. All Rights Reserved.