Installation
To install Ghidra, we will follow the instructions listed here
First install java:
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→ sudo apt update -y ; sudo apt upgrade -y ; sudo apt install default-jdk -y
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→ java -version
openjdk version "11.0.10" 2021-01-19
OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build 11.0.10+9-post-Debian-1)
OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 11.0.10+9-post-Debian-1, mixed mode, sharing)
From here, just go to ghidra's main website to download the zip file:
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→ wget https://www.ghidra-sre.org/ghidra_9.2.2_PUBLIC_20201229.zip
--2021-02-21 23:10:29-- https://www.ghidra-sre.org/ghidra_9.2.2_PUBLIC_20201229.zip
Resolving www.ghidra-sre.org (www.ghidra-sre.org)... 13.249.9.44, 13.249.9.83, 13.249.9.20, ...
Connecting to www.ghidra-sre.org (www.ghidra-sre.org)|13.249.9.44|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 317805407 (303M) [application/zip]
Saving to: ‘ghidra_9.2.2_PUBLIC_20201229.zip’
ghidra_9.2.2_PUBLIC_20201229.zip 100%[=======================================================================================================================================================================================================>] 303.08M 10.9MB/s in 29s
2021-02-21 23:10:58 (10.5 MB/s) - ‘ghidra_9.2.2_PUBLIC_20201229.zip’ saved [317805407/317805407]
[ 192.168.100.126/24 ] [ /dev/pts/1 ] [~/Tools/ghidra]
→ unzip ghidra_9.2.2_PUBLIC_20201229.zip
Now from here, we need the ghidraRun binary to launch ghidra:
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→ ls -l
total 310368
drwxr-xr-x 9 nothing nothing 4096 Dec 29 17:22 ghidra_9.2.2_PUBLIC
-rw-r--r-- 1 nothing nothing 317805407 Jan 19 17:53 ghidra_9.2.2_PUBLIC_20201229.zip
[ 192.168.100.126/24 ] [ /dev/pts/1 ] [~/Tools/ghidra]
→ cd ghidra_9.2.2_PUBLIC
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→ ls
docs Extensions Ghidra ghidraRun ghidraRun.bat GPL LICENSE licenses server support
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→ file ghidraRun
ghidraRun: Bourne-Again shell script, ASCII text executable
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→ cat ghidraRun
#!/usr/bin/env bash
#----------------------------------------
# Ghidra launch
#----------------------------------------
# Maximum heap memory may be changed if default is inadequate. This will generally be up to 1/4 of
# the physical memory available to the OS. Uncomment MAXMEM setting if non-default value is needed.
#MAXMEM=2G
# Resolve symbolic link if present and get the directory this script lives in.
# NOTE: "readlink -f" is best but works on Linux only, "readlink" will only work if your PWD
# contains the link you are calling (which is the best we can do on macOS), and the "echo" is the
# fallback, which doesn't attempt to do anything with links.
SCRIPT_FILE="$(readlink -f "$0" 2>/dev/null || readlink "$0" 2>/dev/null || echo "$0")"
SCRIPT_DIR="${SCRIPT_FILE%/*}"
# Launch Ghidra
"${SCRIPT_DIR}"/support/launch.sh bg Ghidra "${MAXMEM}" "" ghidra.GhidraRun "$@"
To make it more convenient, i make a symlink to a folder in PATH:
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→ echo $PATH
/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/games:/usr/games
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→ sudo ln -s $(pwd)/ghidraRun /usr/bin/ghidra
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→ ls -lash /usr/bin/ghidra
0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 56 Feb 21 23:19 /usr/bin/ghidra -> /home/nothing/Tools/ghidra/ghidra_9.2.2_PUBLIC/ghidraRun
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→ which ghidra
/usr/bin/ghidra
From here you can just type ghidra in your terminal or in dmenu or rofi or whatever you want, it will open up ghidra for you:
Here you get a nice tutorial to let you know about ghidra's functionnalities, but you will want to create a new project and giving it a directory location:
Just to test, we're going to copy a random binary locally and import it
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→ cp /bin/lspci .
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→ ls -lash lspci
92K -rwxr-xr-x 1 nothing nothing 92K Feb 21 23:27 lspci
And there you have it! You now have an imported a binary file to disassemble.
