Port Diaphora to Ghidra

[joxeankoret]

This is going to be a long time task (don't expect it to be available by tomorrow morning). The following is, roughly, the plan:

- [ ] Create an IDA Python compatibility layer for Ghidra.

• Create a Python compatibility layer.
• Port the exporter.
• Port the basic GUI stuff.
• Port the basic (plain assembler and plain pseudo-code) diffing GUI portions.
• Port the diff in a graph.

[Patuti]

For the compat layer, this might be useful: https://github.com/daenerys-sre/source

[joxeankoret]

Just in case you're curious, I'm writing code for an API for a reverse engineering framework agnostic library (ie: the same unmodified code runs in IDA, Ghidra, Binary Ninja and possibly Radare2).

[kiwidoggie]

I was wondering for a status update, or if you were open to having a in-development branch that people could help contribute to. I know it's quite of an undertaking, and going to take time <3 👍

[joxeankoret]

Summer is not the best time to start a project :) However, I will create "soon" a new project in Github for the MultiRE library I'm working on, which is the 1st part of this project. I will add you to it as soon as I put it on Github.

[opsxcq]

I wonder which of these layers will you create in java and how they will communicate with python (socket/bindings/jpython/rest) ?

[joxeankoret]

I haven't really done any real work on this subject for the Ghidra part. Not enough time :(

[opsxcq]

I will keep an eye on this,let me know when you will get started.

[alexeikaramba]

Is there any progress on ghidra support? I didnt find anything in sources, i hoped that its partially ready so i can continue develop it

[joxeankoret]

The problem is that Ghidra doesn't natively support Python 3.X. If at some point the Ghidra team add native support for it or some of the multiple Python 3.X plugins that are out there becomes a de-facto plugin, then I will think about it again. Meanwhile... there is no point in even trying.

[r0ny123]

@joxeankoret, how about this https://github.com/mandiant/Ghidrathon? :)

[joxeankoret]

I know about 3 or 4 different options for having Python 3.X support. It will depend on adoption which one is the most used one. When one becomes the de-facto one, I will think again about it.

[nift4]

Ghidra now supports Python 3 natively: NationalSecurityAgency/ghidra#6900

[joxeankoret]

I'm going to try it and, if it's already integrated, start porting right away with the aim of having something working by the end of this year. Thanks for pointing this out!

PS: It's aimed for Ghidra version 11.3. I will just wait.