binary blob unpacking

[lucasduffey]

There should be a best practice example plugin for handling unpacked data. I've seen a UPX-unpacker issue tracker which is a very small use case. This issue is for broader scope.

Perhaps some sort of binaryView hierarchy is required?

Examples

• upx unpacked code (Plugable Auto-unpack subsystem #446)
• firmware (nested ELF files)
• other packaged blobs (android APKs => shared objects + DEX code)

APK use case

• apk parent
• dex (child of apkView)
• ELFs (child of apkView, one of the bundled shared objects) - there can be multiple shared objs
• etc..

Related: #446

[lucasduffey]

nes.py plugin is here:

binaryninja-api/python/examples/nes.py

Line 688 in 81219f3

banks = []

no simple way to do something like:

• NESView.get_carved_blob_of_data() and use that for a different view AFAIK

[lucasduffey]

duplicate of #133