In the previous post I discussed one way to go about gathering a trace for emulation. In this I’m going to talk about how we go about emulating such a trace, how and why we hook functions as they are emulated and how symbolic operations are performed.

As before, this post is accompanied by a video which demonstrates the code in action. Unlike the previous post I’ve decided to skip the paragraphs of rambling and instead most of the info is in the actual video itself =)

Topics covered:

– Introducing symbolic data via function hooks

– Performing computations on symbolic data

(You probably want to click the “Watch on YouTube” option on the bottom right of the video and set the quality to 720p. Btw, near the end of the video I said something along the lines of “one of the advantages of whitebox fuzzing over symbolic emulation”. That makes no sense =) What I meant to say was “one of the advantages of whitebox fuzzing over normal symbolic execution”.)