About

The purpose of this project is to provide a cross platform library which can parse, modify and abstract ELF, PE and MachO formats.

Main features:

• Parsing: LIEF can parse ELF, PE, MachO, OAT, DEX, VDEX, ART and provides an user-friendly API to access to format internals.
• Modify: LIEF enables to modify some parts of these formats
• Abstract: Three formats have common features like sections, symbols, entry point... LIEF factors them.
• API: LIEF can be used in C, C++ and Python

Content

• About
• Download / Install
• Getting started
• Documentation
  • Sphinx
  • Doxygen
  • Tutorials:
    • Parse and manipulate formats
    • Create a PE from scratch
    • Play with ELF symbols
    • ELF Hooking
    • Infecting the plt/got
    • PE Hooking
    • PE Resources
    • Transforming an ELF executable into a library
    • How to use frida on a non-rooted device
    • Android formats
    • Mach-O modification
    • ELF Coredump
    • PE Authenticode
• Contact
• About
  • Authors
  • License
  • Bibtex

Downloads / Install

First, make sure to have an updated version of setuptools:

pip install setuptools --upgrade

To install the latest version (release):

pip install lief

To install nightlty build:

pip install [--user] --index-url https://lief.quarkslab.com/packages lief==0.12.0.dev0

Packages

• Nightly: https://github.com/lief-project/packages/tree/gh-pages
• v0.11.4: https://github.com/lief-project/LIEF/releases/tag/0.11.4

Here are guides to install or integrate LIEF:

• Python
• VisualStudio
• XCode
• CMake

Getting started

Python

import lief

# ELF
binary = lief.parse("/usr/bin/ls")
print(binary)

# PE
binary = lief.parse("C:\\Windows\\explorer.exe")
print(binary)

# Mach-O
binary = lief.parse("/usr/bin/ls")
print(binary)

C++

#include <LIEF/LIEF.hpp>

int main(int argc, char** argv) {
  // ELF
  try {
    std::unique_ptr<LIEF::ELF::Binary> elf = LIEF::ELF::Parser::parse("/bin/ls");
    std::cout << *elf << std::endl;
  } catch (const LIEF::exception& err) {
    std::cerr << err.what() << std::endl;
  }

  // PE
  try {
    std::unique_ptr<LIEF::PE::Binary> pe = LIEF::PE::Parser::parse("C:\\Windows\\explorer.exe");
    std::cout << *pe << std::endl;
  } catch (const LIEF::exception& err) {
    std::cerr << err.what() << std::endl;
  }

  // Mach-O
  try {
    std::unique_ptr<LIEF::MachO::FatBinary> macho = LIEF::MachO::Parser::parse("/bin/ls");
    std::cout << *macho << std::endl;
  } catch (const LIEF::exception& err) {
    std::cerr << err.what() << std::endl;
  }

  return 0;
}

C (Limited API)

#include <LIEF/LIEF.h>

int main(int argc, char** argv) {
  Elf_Binary_t* elf = elf_parse("/usr/bin/ls");

  Elf_Section_t** sections = elf->sections;

  for (size_t i = 0; sections[i] != NULL; ++i) {
    printf("%s\n", sections[i]->name);
  }

  elf_binary_destroy(elf);
  return 0;
}

Documentation

• Main documentation
• Tutorial
• API
• Doxygen

Contact

• Mail: lief at quarkslab com
• Gitter: lief-project

About

Authors

Romain Thomas (@rh0main) - Quarkslab

License

LIEF is provided under the Apache 2.0 license.

Bibtex

@MISC {LIEF,
  author       = "Romain Thomas",
  title        = "LIEF - Library to Instrument Executable Formats",
  howpublished = "https://lief.quarkslab.com/",
  month        = "April",
  year         = "2017",
}