Vivisect MarkII

Vivisect MarkII is a next generation vivisect architecture which codifies lessons learned from the years of organic growth of the vdb, vtrace, cobra, envi, vstruct, and vivisect projects.

http://visi.kenshoto.com/

MarkII Design

A number of design considerations are the foundation for the Viv MarkII effort.

• 100% python3 ( this feature alone would require a total refactor )
• unit tests unit tests unit tests ( shooting for 100% non-interface code coverage )
• portable / serializable data primitives
• async event driven architecture
• "impenetrable" abstraction layers
• "top" level APIs are RMI compatible
• more "data convention" less "data APIs" ( ie, setFooInfo("woot",10) > setFooWoot(10) )
• truly unified code ( previous vtrace + vivisect was a smash and go )
• ground-up distributed processing capability ( built in not bolt on )
• 0 cruft ( the legacy code base had grown organically )

and more I'm sure to think of later...

Tools

Vivisect command line tools are implemented as executable python modules which can be run using:

python -m

Vivisect tools:

• vivisect.tools.vdb - replacement for vdbbin, the vivisect debug cli
• vivisect.tools.viv - replacement for vivbin, the vivisect workspace cli
• vivisect.tools.bex - binary executable dumper ( multi-format )

vivisect.tools.viv

vivisect.tools.vdb

vivisect.tools.bex