📚 OpenRCE is preserved as a read-only archive. Launched at RECon Montreal in 2005. Registration and posting are disabled.








Flag: Tornado! Hurricane!

 Forums >>  Brainstorms - General  >>  New to Reversing

Topic created on: January 24, 2006 21:56 CST by kitty .

I have a file format (.vlx) which seems to be similar to xml, how do i go about trying to figure it out ?

  aeppert     January 25, 2006 08:21.40 CST
If it is XML-esque, then it is obviously plaintext and as such is infinitely easier than binary.  As with anything else, your first place to start would be not to actually ask the question of someone else and go about learning on your own.  Google is an infinite resource of information and likely the answer resides there long before you ever had to ask the question here.

First step in learning this material is being self-motivated.  There is absolutely no other way.

  gnukish     January 26, 2006 11:23.52 CST
VLX (Visual LISP executable). Similar to the LSP and FAS type of files, a VLX can load and run a Visual LISP program

As AutoCAD is concerned,a VLX is a stand-alone program which means it's completely self-contained.(not divided into multiple files,but the functions/variables/constants/others are inside the file itself)

  9435cge     January 28, 2006 05:29.28 CST

  JCRoberts     January 30, 2006 11:36.17 CST
Though it's tough to be certain from a file extension and a vague discription, I suspect gnukish is correct, namely Visual LISP.

All LISP variant languages are esoteric and powerful and have quite a vast number of possible application delivery models. From your description of it being similar to xml, most likely with parenthesis () rather than angle brackets <>, you will need to do nothing in the way of reverse engineering since are actually looking at the source code.
;-)

JCR

Note: Registration is required to post to the forums.

There are 31,328 total registered users.


Recently Created Topics
[help] Unpacking VMP...
Mar/12
Reverse Engineering ...
Jul/06
let 'IDAPython' impo...
Sep/24
set 'IDAPython' as t...
Sep/24
GuessType return une...
Sep/20
About retrieving the...
Sep/07
How to find specific...
Aug/15
How to get data depe...
Jul/07
Identify RVA data in...
May/06
Question about memor...
Dec/12


Recent Forum Posts
Finding the procedur...
rolEYder
Question about debbu...
rolEYder
Identify RVA data in...
sohlow
let 'IDAPython' impo...
sohlow
How to find specific...
hackgreti
Problem with ollydbg
sh3dow
How can I write olly...
sh3dow
New LoadMAP plugin v...
mefisto...
Intel pin in loaded ...
djnemo
OOP_RE tool available?
Bl4ckm4n


Recent Blog Entries
halsten
Mar/14
Breaking IonCUBE VM

oleavr
Oct/24
Anatomy of a code tracer

hasherezade
Sep/24
IAT Patcher - new tool for ...

oleavr
Aug/27
CryptoShark: code tracer ba...

oleavr
Jun/25
Build a debugger in 5 minutes

More ...


Recent Blog Comments
nieo on:
Mar/22
IAT Patcher - new tool for ...

djnemo on:
Nov/17
Kernel debugger vs user mod...

acel on:
Nov/14
Kernel debugger vs user mod...

pedram on:
Dec/21
frida.github.io: scriptable...

capadleman on:
Jun/19
Using NtCreateThreadEx for ...

More ...


Imagery
SoySauce Blueprint
Jun 6, 2008

[+] expand

View Gallery (11) / Submit