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Topic created on: November 18, 2006 18:34 CST by vortex2050 .

My initial answer is no, but would like to see what others think...

Is it possible to intercept opcodes in a target application on-the-fly (for context manipulation reasons)? Sort of like sandboxing an application, VMware/VPC-style?

I know you can 'debug' an application and step through it, checking the current opcode every step, but that's horribly slow. I wanted to 'extend' the functionality of an opcode (lets say mov).

  pedram     November 19, 2006 16:38.14 CST
It's definitely doable, what you are looking for is dynamic binary instrumentation (DBI). There are a couple of "frameworks":

* http://www.cag.lcs.mit.edu/dynamorio/
* http://rogue.colorado.edu/pin/
* http://www.dyninst.org/

DynamoRIO is the base technology that Determina is built off of. I believe that some of the original project devs are at Determina now actually. PIN I believe has a Python interface ;-) There are other available frameworks as well. Valgrind for LINUX is another.

  vortex2050   November 20, 2006 13:11.45 CST
Genius, pure genius. Thanks for the pointers, I would've never found these!

  furkan15   November 23, 2006 20:23.33 CST
thank you

  zarulshahrin     April 16, 2008 21:26.53 CDT
A python interface for PIN? where can I find one? No luck with google...

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