qiling v1.4.1 releases: Advanced Binary Emulation framework

Qiling – Advanced Binary Emulation framework

Qiling is an advanced binary emulation framework, with the following features:

• Cross-platform: Windows, MacOS, Linux, BSD
• Cross architecture: X86, X86_64, Arm, Arm64, Mips
• Multiple file formats: PE, MachO, ELF
• Emulate & sandbox machine code in an isolated environment
• Provide high-level API to setup & configure the sandbox
• Fine-grain instrumentation: allow hooks at various levels (instruction/basic-block/memory-access/exception/syscall/IO/etc)
• Allow dynamic hotpatch on-the-fly running code, including the loaded library
• True framework in Python, make it easy to build customized security analysis tools on top

Qiling is backed by Unicorn engine.

Changelog v1.4.1

New features:

• Introduced riscv, both 32 and 64 (#980)
• Added U-boot (#1000)
• Abstract calls to native functions (#1013)

Improvements:

• Minor improvements to memory module (#1012)
• Refactored core hooks (#966)
• update ql.os.posix.const_mapping with more os/arch match (#973)
• More update in MCU modules (#971)
• Fix getpeername and getsockname syscalls (#986)
• Qdb improvements (#999)

Install

git clone https://github.com/qilingframework/qiling.git
cd qiling
python3 setup.py install

Use

• Below example shows how to use Qiling framework to emulate a Windows EXE on a Linux machine.

$ ./qltool run -f examples/rootfs/arm_linux/bin/arm32-hello --rootfs examples/rootfs/arm_linux/

$ ./qltool shellcode --os linux --arch x86 --asm -f examples/shellcodes/lin32_execve.asm