DEF CON 30 - atlas - Emulation driven Reverse Engineering for Finding Vulns

Do your eyes hurt? is your brain aching? is your pain caused from too much deciphering difficult assembly (or decompiled C) code? Assembly can hurt, C code can be worse. Partial emulation to the rescue! Let the emulator walk you through the code, let it answer hard questions/problems you run into in your reversing/vuln research. This talk will introduce you the power of emulator-driven reversing. guide your RE with the help of an emulator (one that can survive limited context), emulate code you don't want to reverse, be better, learn more, be faster, with less brain-drain. Make no mistake, RE will always have room for magicians to show their wizardry... but after this talk, you may find yourself a much more powerful wizard.