GNU Binutils: The ELF Swiss Army Knife

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Author here: thanks for sharing! I'm curious to hear what other interesting ways people use Binutil commands or if there are other ELF introspection tools that I neglected to mention in the article. I only touched on it at the end but some of the commands in libabigail such as abidiff are really neat and useful too!

Nice write-up!

FWIW, there's a bunch of other interesting tools for ELF, https://github.com/MattPD/cpplinks/blob/master/executables.m...

LIEF (Library to Instrument Executable Formats, https://github.com/lief-project/LIEF, an interesting project on its own) also has good references, https://lief.quarkslab.com/doc/latest/references.html

Very cool, I haven't used LIEF before but it looks quite interesting ... thanks for the links!

Julia Evans has written a great yet succint overview of ELF files: https://jvns.ca/blog/2014/09/06/how-to-read-an-executable/

Among other things she points to this graphic showing the structure of an ELF file which I hadn't seen before: https://code.google.com/archive/p/corkami/wikis/ELF101.wiki.

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