binary-inspector 0.1.2

binary-inspector is a library and tools to inspect binaries (elf, winpe, mach0) for symbols and other information, and models to store this.

binary-inspector is a utility to extract symbols from various kinds of binaries, i.e. ELF, Mach-O, WinPE and other binary formats. It is designed to work as a ScanCode Toolkit plugin and integrated in ScanCode.io pipelines.

To install run pip install binary-inspector and use with:

scancode --json-pp - --macho-symbol --winpe-symbol --verbose <PATH to a tree or file with binaries>

The JSON output will contain binary symbols found in binaries if any.

• License: Apache-2.0 AND MIT

• Copyright (c) nexB Inc., AboutCode, OWASP Foundation and others.

• Homepage: https://github.com/aboutcode-org/binary-inspector

Development

• Install requirements and dependencies using ./configure --clean && ./configure --dev

• Then source venv/bin/activate

Testing:

• To run tests: pytest -vvs

• To regen test fixtures: SCANCODE_REGEN_TEST_FIXTURES=yes pytest -vvs

Acknowledgements, Funding, Support and Sponsoring

This project is funded, supported and sponsored by:

• Generous support and contributions from users like you!

• the European Commission NGI programme

• the NLnet Foundation

• the Swiss State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation (SERI)

• Google, including the Google Summer of Code and the Google Seasons of Doc programmes

• Mercedes-Benz Group

• Microsoft and Microsoft Azure

• AboutCode ASBL

• nexB Inc.

This project also uses some functions from other packages:

• blint (https://github.com/owasp-dep-scan/blint)

• symbolic (https://pypi.org/project/symbolic/)

• lief (https://pypi.org/project/lief/)

This project was funded through the NGI0 Entrust Fund, a fund established by NLnet with financial support from the European Commission’s Next Generation Internet programme, under the aegis of DG Communications Networks, Content and Technology under grant agreement No 101069594.

https://nlnet.nl/project/Back2source/

This project was funded through the NGI0 Core Fund, a fund established by NLnet with financial support from the European Commission’s Next Generation Internet programme, under the aegis of DG Communications Networks, Content and Technology under grant agreement No 101092990.

https://nlnet.nl/project/Back2source-next/

This project was funded through the NGI0 Entrust Fund, a fund established by NLnet with financial support from the European Commission’s Next Generation Internet programme, under the aegis of DG Communications Networks, Content and Technology under grant agreement No 101069594.

https://nlnet.nl/project/purl2all/