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Presentations of Frida

We have presented Frida at various conferences around the world. As presentation material becomes available, we will try to put it here.

  • OSDC 2015: Putting the open back into closed software (PDF · Recording)

    Have this black box process that you’re just dying to peek inside of? Is this process perhaps running on your cell phone, or on a closed-source OS, and you just got to interoperate with it? Is the company behind this proprietary software being less than forthcoming with APIs and docs? Well, if you know a little JavaScript and have a little persistence, perhaps we can help…

    In this talk, we show what you can do with Frida, a scriptable dynamic binary instrumentation toolkit for Windows, Mac, Linux, iOS, Android, and QNX. We show by example how to write snippets of custom debugging code in JavaScript, and then dynamically insert these scripts into running processes. Hook any function, spy on crypto APIs or trace private application code. No source code, no permission needed!

  • OSDC 2015: The engineering behind the reverse engineering (PDF · Recording)

    Ever wondered how to build your own debugger? Did you complete that assembly tutorial as a teenager, but never found any real life use for low-level programming? Need to learn more scary-sounding technical jargon to crank up your pay grade? If you answered “yes” to zero or more of the above, you might be interested in what we have to offer.

    In this talk, we dive into the engineering principles behind Frida, a multi-platform scriptable dynamic binary instrumentation toolkit. We explain the basics of operating system processes, together with the relevant native OS APIs. We show how to use these APIs to probe state (memory, registers, threads) of a target process, and how to inject your own code into the process. If time allows, we’ll show how Frida performs its dynamic instrumentation by rewriting binary code, in memory, while the target process is running.

  • NLUUG 2015: Frida: Putting the open back into closed software (Slides · Demos · Recording)

    Have this black box process that you’re just dying to peek inside of? Is this process perhaps running on your cell phone, or on a closed-source OS, and you just got to interoperate with it? Is the company behind this proprietary software being less than forthcoming with APIs and docs? Well, if you know a little JavaScript and have a little persistence, perhaps we can help…

    In this talk, we show what you can do with Frida, a scriptable dynamic binary instrumentation toolkit for Windows, Mac, Linux, iOS, Android, and QNX. We show by example how to write snippets of custom debugging code in JavaScript, and then dynamically insert these scripts into running processes. Hook any function, spy on crypto APIs or trace private application code. No source code, no permission needed!

  • ZeroNights 2015: Cross-platform reversing with Frida (PDF · Demos)

    Frida is a scriptable dynamic binary instrumentation toolkit aiming to dramatically shorten the development cycle of dynamic analysis and reverse-engineering tools. It also comes with some CLI tools built on top of its APIs. Written in portable C, released under a commercially friendly OSS license, with language bindings for Python, Node.js, and more, it’s a tool of trade to deal with dynamic instrumentation of binaries on all current platforms (Windows, Mac, Linux, iOS, Android, and QNX).

    This workshop is for attendees who would like to get up to speed on the state-of-the-art in dynamic instrumentation on both desktop and mobile. We will start out with an intro to Frida’s APIs and CLI tools, and then walk you through how to build a reversing tool from scratch.

    Requirements for the workshop participants:

    • 2-3 hours
    • Knowledge of the English language
    • It’s great if you bring a laptop running Windows, Mac or Linux, and optionally also a jailbroken/rooted iOS or Android device

  • No cON Name 2015: Cross-platform reversing with Frida (PDF · Demos)

    Frida is a scriptable dynamic binary instrumentation toolkit aiming to dramatically shorten the development cycle of dynamic analysis and reverse-engineering tools. It also comes with some CLI tools built on top of its APIs. Written in portable C, released under a commercially friendly OSS license, with language bindings for Python, Node.js, and more, it’s a tool of trade to deal with dynamic instrumentation of binaries on all current platforms (Windows, Mac, Linux, iOS, Android, and QNX).

    This workshop is for attendees who would like to get up to speed on the state-of-the-art in dynamic instrumentation on both desktop and mobile. We will start out with an intro to Frida’s APIs and CLI tools, and then walk you through how to build a reversing tool from scratch.

    Requirements for the workshop participants:

    • 2 hours
    • Knowledge of the English language
    • It’s great if you bring a laptop running Windows, Mac or Linux, and optionally also a jailbroken/rooted iOS or Android device

  • FOSDEM 2016: Testing interoperability with closed-source software through scriptable diplomacy (PDF)

    You, of course, write open-source software. They didn’t. And for the sake of your mobile users, you both need to be friends. Enter Frida, the diplomat (she’s really only a library, but don’t tell anyone). She has coaxing superpowers that allow you to expose the innards of binary-only software, be it other libraries, operating systems, or other OS processes you must deal with. You can program Frida to infiltrate closed-source software, and expose their internals into abstractions you can use for testing the interoperability of your software. Want to lift some of their logic into your mock? Or replace a few functions in their binary code with your mocks? Hopefully, you want to do that using high-level languages such as JavaScript and/or Python, because those are the ones Frida likes the most.

    In this talk, we use Frida, the scriptable, dynamic instrumentation toolkit, to expose internal functionality from binary-only software. By exposing internal functions and data structures, tightly integrating software often becomes easier to test at fine granularity. What previously had to be larger integration tests dependent upon several running subsystems, may, with a little effort, become isolated test fixtures that are easier to reason about. We show you unfortunate souls who have to deal with this level of interoperability how to program Frida to identify and expose functions in remote processes, and how to combine these exposed functions into small test fixtures in a unit-testing style.

  • BSides Knoxville: Peeking under the hood with Frida (Recording)

    Ever wanted to peek beneath the hood of an application running on your desktop or smart-phone? Want to know what data is passed to a particular crypto function? Frida is for you!

    Frida is a powerful and modern binary instrumentation framework which makes it simple to hook and trace arbitrary functions within target executables, and otherwise explore their functionality, using easy-to-write javascript. It’s like greasemonkey for binary applications! It supports Windows, Linux, OSX, iOS, Android and QNX.

    This talk will introduce Frida and show how it can be used to aid in analysis of binary applications. It will be packed with demos.

    Time permitting, we will also discuss some of the effort that was required to port Frida to QNX.

  • Ekoparty 2016: Getting fun with Frida

    Do you know what’s Frida? Do you know what’s about? What’s useful for?. No, I’m not talking about the famous painter. I’m talking about a new hooking and dynamic binary instrumentation framework.

    In this turbo talk, I pretend to show you this newly available framework to facilitate some daily reverse engineering tasks. I’m going to teach you which are it basic parts, why it could be useful for you, which are the advantages and disadvantages over other similar frameworks and how to use it trough some demos and code snippets.

  • RMLL 2017: Unlocking secrets of proprietary software using Frida (Slides · Recording)

    Ever wanted to understand the internals of an application running on your desktop or phone? Want to know what data is passed to a particular crypto function? Then Frida is for you!

    This talk will introduce Frida and show how it can be used to aid in analysis of binary applications. It will be packed with demos.

  • GPN 2018: Frida - (Game)Hacking mit JavaScript (German presentation)

    Jeder kennt JavaScript. Aber wie viele wissen, dass sich mit JavaScript auch ganz gut Spiele oder Programme hacken lassen? Ich stelle das Frida Framework vor, welches genau das ermöglicht!

    Frida ist ein Framework, welches es erlaubt JavaScript in Prozesse zu laden. Es wird dafür der V8 JavaScript Interpreter in einen Prozess geladen, welcher diverse Features mitbringt. Speichermanipulation, Hooks, Detours, alles ist möglich!