search

mandiant / capa

The FLARE team's open-source tool to identify capabilities in executable files.
https://mandiant.github.io/capa/
Apache License 2.0
4.06k stars 512 forks source link

Binary Ninja UI #1795

Open xusheng6 opened 11 months ago

xusheng6 commented 11 months ago

Now that capa has both UI for IDA and Ghidra, it would good to also have a binary ninja UI.

Previously, Willi and I discussed the possibility to share some code with the IDA UI. But I grew skeptical on that recently, since that could make the code harder to maintain (the maintainer needs to have good knowledge of both BN and IDA API & UI), and it will take longer to get the initial version working. So maybe a BN plugin can be written from scratch, and it can re-use some of the IDA UI's code (by duplicating it, but not necessarily using the exact same file).

williballenthin commented 11 months ago

since that could make the code harder to maintain (the maintainer needs to have good knowledge of both BN and IDA API & UI), and it will take longer to get the initial version working

I think this makes a lot of sense. We shouldn't over-engineer things too early. Of course, the contributor can take inspiration from the existing IDA plugin, which I think will be a big help.