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kandi X-RAY | PointyStick Summary
kandi X-RAY | PointyStick Summary
PointyStick is a C# library. PointyStick has no bugs, it has no vulnerabilities, it has a Permissive License and it has low support. You can download it from GitHub.
When starting a new reverse engineering project, one of the most difficult steps is finding what portions of an application are relevant to your goals and which are not. Non-trivial programs will not only include code you are lookng for, but most likely GUI code, auto-update mecanisms, networking code, and more. This can make it difficult to determine which code you need to focus on reversing and which code you can ignore. Typically, users would load a program in a debugger, set breakpoints, and exercise their program in such a way that a breakpoint fires. However, it can be time consuming to set appropriate breakpoints and then ensure that when breakpoints do trigger that they are still relevant. Pointy Stick provides on demand program tracing and memory region monitoring. Using PointyStick, a user would run her program with no tracing until it is ready to exercise some interesting functionality, such as an updating mechanism. She would enable tracing with Pointy Stick, execute the update mechanism, and then disable program tracing. The generated log files will ONLY contain instructions that were run as a result of her manually triggering the update mechanism. She then has a much smaller subset of the program to reverse engineer, rather than starting at the program’s main() function. Another feature that Pointy Stick offers is memory region monitoring. Users can specify a range of memory to monitor and anytime the program writes to that range, a snapshot will be taken and stored to disk. This makes it very straightforward to monitor a static region of memory for changes.
When starting a new reverse engineering project, one of the most difficult steps is finding what portions of an application are relevant to your goals and which are not. Non-trivial programs will not only include code you are lookng for, but most likely GUI code, auto-update mecanisms, networking code, and more. This can make it difficult to determine which code you need to focus on reversing and which code you can ignore. Typically, users would load a program in a debugger, set breakpoints, and exercise their program in such a way that a breakpoint fires. However, it can be time consuming to set appropriate breakpoints and then ensure that when breakpoints do trigger that they are still relevant. Pointy Stick provides on demand program tracing and memory region monitoring. Using PointyStick, a user would run her program with no tracing until it is ready to exercise some interesting functionality, such as an updating mechanism. She would enable tracing with Pointy Stick, execute the update mechanism, and then disable program tracing. The generated log files will ONLY contain instructions that were run as a result of her manually triggering the update mechanism. She then has a much smaller subset of the program to reverse engineer, rather than starting at the program’s main() function. Another feature that Pointy Stick offers is memory region monitoring. Users can specify a range of memory to monitor and anytime the program writes to that range, a snapshot will be taken and stored to disk. This makes it very straightforward to monitor a static region of memory for changes.
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PointyStick has a low active ecosystem.
It has 8 star(s) with 4 fork(s). There are 5 watchers for this library.
It had no major release in the last 12 months.
There are 1 open issues and 0 have been closed. There are no pull requests.
It has a neutral sentiment in the developer community.
The latest version of PointyStick is 1.0.1
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PointyStick has no bugs reported.
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PointyStick has no vulnerabilities reported, and its dependent libraries have no vulnerabilities reported.
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PointyStick is licensed under the Apache-2.0 License. This license is Permissive.
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