boricj/ghidra-delinker-extension on Hacker News

…Absurdly complex, got me a poster session at SURE workshop at ACM CCS last year, as a hobbyist. [1] https://github.com/boricj/ghidra-delinker-extension

comment by boricj · 2026-09-21 · in Ask HN: What is the most interesting project you are working on?

…it is the kind of project that is practically endless), but I don't see how I could top that. [1] https://github.com/boricj/ghidra-delinker-extension [2] https://boricj.net/2025/10/25/ghidra-delinker-extension-and-...

comment by boricj · 2026-08-10 · in Ask HN: What Project are you the most proud of?

I wrote an analyzer to do that, you can find it here: https://github.com/boricj/ghidra-delinker-extension/blob/mas... It uses register dependency graph traversal and code block flow analysis to try and find which two instructions are the…

comment by boricj · 2026-04-21 · in Ask HN: What are you building that's not AI related?

…when trying to work on this, probably because it's a genuinely difficult topic even for humans. [1] https://github.com/boricj/ghidra-delinker-extension

comment by boricj · 2026-04-12 · in Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (April 2026)

…to the SURE workshop at ACM CCS 2025 in Taiwan as a hobbyist, an absolutely insane story. [1] https://github.com/boricj/ghidra-delinker-extension

comment by boricj · 2026-04-09 · in Ask HN: What are you building that's not AI related?

Might as well plug in my own extension: https://github.com/boricj/ghidra-delinker-extension It's a relocatable object file exporter that supports x86/MIPS and ELF/COFF. In other words, it can delink any program selection and you can reuse…

comment by boricj · 2026-02-16 · in Ghidra by NSA

…blog post once it's done. [1] Others call it unlinking, binary splitting or binary reassembly. [2] https://github.com/boricj/ghidra-delinker-extension

comment by boricj · 2025-09-20 · in Cormac McCarthy's tips on how to write a science paper (2019) [pdf]

This wheel: https://github.com/boricj/ghidra-delinker-extension It's a Ghidra extension that can export relocatable object files from any program selection. In other words, it reverses the work done by a linker. I originally built this as…

comment by boricj · 2025-05-24 · in Reinvent the Wheel

You can find it here: https://github.com/boricj/ghidra-delinker-extension I've demonstrated a bunch of use-cases on my blog, ranging from porting software to pervasive binary patching and pilfering application code into libraries, all done…

comment by boricj · 2025-03-26 · in Collapse OS

…need to figure out and undo all the relocation spots, but you don't get source code at the end. [1] https://github.com/boricj/ghidra-delinker-extension

comment by boricj · 2025-01-11 · in Binary modding a water dispenser to save me from pressing a button (2021)

…extension test suite. [1] https://github.com/torvalds/linux/tree/master/tools/include/... [2] https://github.com/boricj/ghidra-delinker-extension/tree/mas...

comment by boricj · 2024-12-26 · in A Simple ELF

…you know the rules so well that you can break them, but my Ghidra extension is indeed on GitHub: https://github.com/boricj/ghidra-delinker-extension Unless you meant copying source code from GitHub, which isn't an option if the program is…

comment by boricj · 2024-09-21 · in The Age of Software Artisans

There are links to various case studies on my blog inside the README of the repository. https://github.com/boricj/ghidra-delinker-extension/blob/mas...

comment by boricj · 2024-08-22 · in Show HN: A Ghidra extension for exporting parts of a program as object files

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story by boricj · 2024-08-22 · 36 comments

…boricj.net/tenchu1/2024/05/15/part-10.html [2] That piece of code is split off in its own Java class: https://github.com/boricj/ghidra-delinker-extension/blob/mas... [3] In case you're curious: https://github.com/boricj/ghidra-delinker-exte…

comment by boricj · 2024-07-09 · in Ask HN: Is there any software you only made for your own use but nobody else?

…I've never expected anybody else would use it. If someone wants to check out the dark magic: https://github.com/boricj/ghidra-delinker-extension (disclaimer: might give nightmares to linker developers).

comment by boricj · 2024-07-05 · in Ask HN: Is there any software you only made for your own use but nobody else?

I'm developing my own Ghidra extension that can export object files out of a program selection: https://github.com/boricj/ghidra-delinker-extension Ghidra's data model, analyzers and UI gave me a framework that allowed me to experiment and…

comment by boricj · 2024-05-29 · in NSA Ghidra open-source reverse engineering framework

…asked some questions related to delinking C++ code on Windows, you might find some answers there: https://github.com/boricj/ghidra-delinker-extension/issues/4 Don't hesitate to contact me directly if you want to discuss this stuff more…

comment by boricj · 2024-05-11 · in Spider-Man (Neversoft) Decompilation Project Progress Checkpoint – May 2024

…so it's a bit demoralizing. I wrote a Ghidra extension to do that, you can check it out there: https://github.com/boricj/ghidra-delinker-extension

comment by boricj · 2024-05-11 · in Spider-Man (Neversoft) Decompilation Project Progress Checkpoint – May 2024

…weird edge case hidden inside a function thousands of instructions long where it breaks down... [1] https://github.com/boricj/ghidra-delinker-extension

comment by boricj · 2024-05-10 · in Spider-Man (Neversoft) Decompilation Project Progress Checkpoint – May 2024

I did, you can find the Ghidra extension there: https://github.com/boricj/ghidra-delinker-extension The problem is properly identifying the relocations spots and their targets inside a Ghidra database, which is based on references. On x86…

comment by boricj · 2024-04-23 · in Ask HN: What rabbit hole(s) did you dive into recently?

…in practice. Embedding binary blobs inside a program in a portable way is still a mess today. [1] https://github.com/boricj/ghidra-delinker-extension/tree/mas...

comment by boricj · 2024-01-16 · in Exploring Object File Formats

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story by boricj · 2024-01-03 · 4 comments

Ghidra extension for delinking programs back into object files: https://github.com/boricj/ghidra-delinker-extension In short, this Ghidra extension allows one to reconstruct relocation tables through analysis and then export parts of…

comment by boricj · 2023-10-12 · in Ask HN: Show me your half baked project