Evaluating Binary Ninja's Sidekick Extension
Category: Vulnerability research
Location: any
Contact:
Damian Pfammatter
Introduction
Sidekick is an AI-powered extension to the Binary Ninja tool, with capabilities to assist users in analyzing and understanding binary programs. Its advertised feature set includes e.g. the
- Recovery of structures
- Assisting with naming of fields and variables
- Providing summaries and descriptions of functions
- Support for using simple language to search or answer questions about a binary
Objectives
The main goal of this project is to systematically evaluate the capabilities of Sidekick and review its added value for a reverse engineer. Also, potential alternative tools should be identified and compared against Sidekick. To do so, a binary testbed should be created to e.g. compare the performance with respect to different structures/functions, varying compilation/optimization settings, architectures, etc.
Type
This proposal is recommended for a semester project or as a Bachelor’s thesis at an university of applied sciences.
Requirements
- Experience in binary analysis and reverse engineering
- Solid understanding of assembly languages