Reverse Engineering — Analyzing Headers

objdump is a command line tool that can be used to gain insight into an executable binary. In this article, the tool will be used to dump all of the headers of the ELF binary heapedit with the command below. Then, we will analyze and explain each section of output from the top to the bottom. objdump -x ./heapedit Executable and Linkable Format (ELF) files are a common file format for object files, executable binaries, core dumps, and shared libraries....

2023-07-13 · 11 min · Ally Petitt