Support For Binary Ninja

[the-wondersmith]

I've found myself using Binary Ninja more and more recently, and really like the way that ret-sync makes x64dbg work with Ghidra. It'd be really useful if the same thing could be done in Binary Ninja. BN supports pure-python plugins, and I am primarily a Python developer so I'm happy to do the dev work. I have no concept of where to start though.

Is there any way you could point me in the correct direction?

Also, thank you for making this to begin with. It's fricken' awesome.

[bootleg]

Hi @the-wondersmith

thanks for the nice feedback.

Regarding Binary Ninja, I've never had the opportunity (I may have access to an old one) to use it so far thus I may be out off topic. Here are a couple of ideas though.

Depending on how Binary Ninja handles multiples input files (binaries) the design of the plugin may differ a little. For IDA I've used a dispatcher in front of the IDA instances. Whereas for Ghidra I've used an internal feature of the tool (ProgramManager). There are some pros&cons (for example it implies to load all binaries in the same Ghidra's workspace and window).

Once that point is set. I'd say you only need a couple of features. You may look at the Ghidra plugin which is more cleaner and more modular. Sweeping over the files, basically the kind of features you'd need are:

• ListenerBackground.java: a persistent TPC server receiving request from debugger clients
• LocalColorizerService.java: a way to interact with the code UI (disassembler/decompiler UI), setting position/highlight)
• RequestHandler.java: dissecting requests (basically a tag + json) you'd need to handle a handful of them at first (new_dbg, module, loc)
• RetSyncComponent.java: a way to insert into the UI of the tool (widget, etc.)
• RetSyncPlugin.java: plugin backbone, registering commands, etc.

best regards.

[bootleg]

Work in progress. I can share access to an alpha on request (see email in CREDITS).

[bootleg]

Initial support is now pushed: 0ad9bc7

[bootleg]

Closing this one as it is now pushed. Let's open separated issues for bugs.