x86devirt
This is a project that aims to devirtualize & disassemble applications that have been virtualized using x86virt.
It is a reverse engineering project and all implementation seen here was reverse engineered out of a protected binary file / crackme hosted on tuts4you.com at the following address: https://tuts4you.com/download/1850/
x86 Virtualizer is an open source project located at the following URL: https://github.com/rwfpl/rewolf-x86-virtualizer
Since this project aims to build practical experience reverse engineering applications protected using a VM, the open source project was never referenced during the development of this project and all implementation is based entirely on what has been reverse engineered out of protected executables.
Credits / Dependencies
The devirtualizer on this repository was developed independently by myself (Jeremy Wildsmith) with the help of the following tools / libraries:
- The virtualizer / packer that this tool aims to counter was written by ReWolf. (https://github.com/rwfpl/rewolf-x86-virtualizer)
- Angr is used to symbolically execute the jump decoder and extract the jump mappings. (http://angr.io/)
- Distorm3 is used throughout (https://github.com/gdabah/distorm)
- udis86 is used in the disassembler engine to disassemble instructions that decode into an x86 form (https://github.com/vmt/udis86)
- x64dbg Debugger is used as the debugging engine to analyze the target. (https://github.com/x64dbg/x64dbg)
- VirusTotal/yara-python is used to match signatures (for instruction handlers, the VM stub etc...) (https://github.com/gdabah/distorm)
- nasm assembler is used to assemble the x86 output from the x86virt-disassembler utility
Documentation / Feedback
License
This project and all of its' source files are licensed under the MIT license. NASM is licensed under a seperate license, mentioned under NASM-LICENSE in the distribution.
How to Use
You must have the following installed to use the x86virt unpacker/devirtualizer:
- Python 2.7
- x64dbg
- x64dbgpy
- Python dependency angr (pip install angr)
- Python dependency distorm3 (Download the installer from Distorm 3 releases page: https://github.com/gdabah/distorm/releases )
Once the above items have been installed and correctly configured:
- Download x86devirt release from the releases page ( https://github.com/JeremyWildsmith/x86devirt/releases )
- Open the packed / virtualized target in x64dbg
- Select the Plugins -> x64dbgpy -> Open Script menu item, and browse to the downloaded x86devirt.py script
How to Build
The only portion that you are required to build is the disassembler engine, which is written in C++. On Windows you can build this using cygwin and the make command.