basefind2 vs vmlinux-to-elf

basefind2

A faster firmware base address scanner. (by soyersoyer)

vmlinux-to-elf

A tool to recover a fully analyzable .ELF from a raw kernel, through extracting the kernel symbol table (kallsyms) (by marin-m)

Reverse Engineering linux-kernel Linux vmlinux elf firmware-analysis

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basefind2

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MIPS Firmware Reverse Engineering - anyone having any success using Ghidra for this?
4 projects | /r/ghidra | 6 Jan 2023

Your best bet here is to get the base address nailed down (assuming it’s a flat/monolithic image). There are a handful of utilities floating around (binbloom, basefind2) that use various pointer heuristics to try to guess the base address. There’s also a nice trick detailed in PoC||GTFO that you can use pretty reliably.

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