elfspirit

elfspirit is a useful program that parse, manipulate and camouflage ELF files. It provides a variety of functions, including adding or deleting a section, injecting a dynamic link library for binary static, deleting the section header table to increase the difficulty of reverse engineering and parse ELF like readelf.

More details about static injection → ELF Static Injection to Load Malicious Dynamic Link Library

Building

elfspirit can be installed easily:

make

Dependencies

We run elfspirit using:

• Ubuntu 20.04 / Kali Linux 2020.4
• gcc 10.2.1
• libc-2.31/2.32

Currently, this is the only supported environment. Other environments may also work, but we unfortunately do not have the manpower to investigate compatibility issues.

Usage

add or delete a section to the ELF file

elfspirit addsec   [-n]<section name> [-z]<section size> [-o]<offset(optional)> ELF

inject dynamic link library statically

elfspirit injectso [-n]<section name> [-f]<so name> [-c]<configure file> [-v]<libc version> ELF

delete section header table

elfspirit delshtab ELF

parse ELF file

elfspirit parse ELF

[+] ELF Header
     e_type:                       2 -> An executable file                                    
     e_machine:                   62 -> Sun Microsystems SPARC
     e_version:                    1 -> Current version
     e_entry:                   4208
     ...
[+] Section Header Table
     [Nr] Name            Type                Addr    Off   Size Es  Flg  Lk Inf  Al          
     [ 0]                 SHT_NULL               0      0      0  0        0   0   0
     [ 1] .interp         SHT_PROGBITS      4002a8    2a8     1c  0   A    0   0   1
     [ 2] .note.gnu[...]  SHT_NOTE          4002c4    2c4     24  0   A    0   0   4
     ...
[+] Program Header Table
     [Nr] Type            Offset     Virtaddr   Physaddr   Filesiz  Memsiz   Flg  Align       
     [ 0] PT_PHDR         0x40       0x400040   0x400040   0x268    0x268    R    0x8    
     [ 1] PT_INTERP       0x2a8      0x4002a8   0x4002a8   0x1c     0x1c     R    0x1    
     [ 2] PT_LOAD         0x0        0x400000   0x400000   0x4e8    0x4e8    R    0x4096
	 ...
[+] Section to segment mapping
     [ 0]                                                                                     
     [ 1] .interp
     [ 2] .interp .note.gnu[...] .note.ABI-tag .gnu.hash .dynsym .dynstr
     ...
[+] Dynamic link information
[+] Dynamic section at offset 0x2e20 contains 29 entries                                     
     Tag          Type              Name/Value                                                
     0x00000001   DT_NEEDED         Shared library: [libc.so.6]   
     0x0000000c   DT_INIT           0x401000
     ...

Limitations

elfspirit is a work in process, and some things still aren't implemented. Following is the current list of know limitations.

• addsec The location of the added section only supports a specific offset address of ELF file, such as existing section offset, section header table offset and the end of the file. This is because if we add a section in another location, the program may not work properly.
• injectso is an experimental binary, which mainly implements the idea of static injection. The current version only passes the verification test on libc-2.31/2.32. Therefore, we specially provided a JSON file to load the relevant offset addresses of other versions of libc.

License

elfspirit is open source software. Its code is in the public domain. See the LICENSE file for more details.