Psychological Warfare in Reverse Engineering
REpsych is a proof-of-concept tool that generates images by manipulating a program's control flow graph (CFG). It demonstrates the intersection of reverse engineering and visual art by mapping pixels to CFG nodes.
Why it matters
It highlights the creative and unconventional ways security researchers can manipulate software visualization tools for artistic or demonstration purposes.
: Psychological Warfare in Reverse Engineering
github.com/xoreaxeaxeax/repsych // domas // @xoreaxeaxeax
The REpsych toolset is a proof-of-concept illustrating the generation of images through a program's control flow graph (CFG).
There is no specific point to the project (other than to show that it can be done), but possible (non-serious) applications are outlined in the DEF CON presentation .
The program works reliably with all tested versions of the IDA Pro reverse engineering tool, and semi-reliably with other CFG viewers (Hopper, BinNavi, radare2, etc).
The toolset translates source images into functioning programs, such that the program's control flow graph generates the source image.
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