A book on binary analysis using tools in Linux would not be complete without also covering the GDB. As you may recall from the previous chapter, GDB is used in the dynamic analysis phase of our methodology. GDB is a very feature-rich tool with plenty of extensibility. For example, PWNDBG is a Python-based module for GDB that simplifies some of the commands and tasks of a vanilla installation of GDB. It can come in handy if using GDB is your only option for debuggers during dynamic analysis. While there is no GUI for GDB, there are some display options to cleanly format the output with pertinent information. We will examine a couple of these layout options in this recipe.
This tool can fill an entire book on its own, and sort of already has. There's no way we could cover GDB in its entirety in just one recipe, so instead, we'll cover as much...
