binee (Binary Emulation Environment)

Binee is a complete binary emulation environment that focuses on introspection of all IO operations. Primary goals for this project are to provide a flexible environment for determining a binaries side effects on the system.

The goals Binee tries to solve are the following:

1. Realistic loading of a PE file and its required dependencies. The userland memory should look as close to a real execution as possible.
2. Easy to use hooking framework. We want to create a flexible hooking framework that allows the analyst to rapidly implement new hooks and capture data.
3. Mock out as much of the OS internals as reasonably possible. Currently, there are small mocks of the file system, registry, threading and TIB/PEB structures for Windows.
4. The OS environment, as much as possible, should be defined in a configuration file. This enables rapid movement from environment to environment.

If you choose to use Binee to emulate portions of Microsoft Windows, you are solely responsible for obtaining any necessary rights and licenses from Microsoft.

DEF CON 27 Materials

slides

demo video

Setup and developing in Docker container

If you are running Binee on Microsoft Windows, you can skip the mock file system step.

Most malware will require at least some standard DLLs and these DLLs will need to be accessible from the mock file system. The default "root" mock file system is located in os/win10_32/. In order to allow for the malware to load up DLLs you will need to copy them into the appropriate location within the mock file system. Typically, these should be copied into, os/win10_32/windows/system32/. Once you have the required files in that directory, you can move onto the compiling and running step.

Compiling and running

Build with the following docker command docker build -t binee .

docker run -it -v $PWD:/bineedev/go/src/github.com/carbonblack/binee binee bash

Download Golang dependencies and build Binee

root@2b0fee41629f:~/go/src/github.com/carbonblack/binee# go get
root@2b0fee41629f:~/go/src/github.com/carbonblack/binee# go build

At this point you should be able to execute binee within the Docker container and see the usage menu.

root@2b0fee41629f:~/go/src/github.com/carbonblack/binee# ./binee -v
usage ./binee [-aAhvveis] [FILE] [ARGS]
  -a <apiset dll name>     Returns the real dll name given an apiset dll
  -A                       List all apisets and their mappings
  -c FILE                  Path to a configuration file
  -e FILE                  List file exports
  -h                       Show this usage menu
  -i FILE                  List file imports
  -j                       Output as JSON
  -v[v]                    Verbosity level, two v's for more verbose

If you are running on Microsoft Windows and/or you have your mock file system configured properly, you should be able to execute all the PE files within the tests/ directory.

root@2b0fee41629f:~/go/src/github.com/carbonblack/binee# ./binee tests/ConsoleApplication1_x86.exe
0x20735900: GetSystemTimeAsFileTime(lpSystemTimeAsFileTime = 0xb000ffe0) = 0xb000ffe0
0x2072a310: GetCurrentThreadId() = 0x0
0x20734100: GetCurrentProcessId() = 0x2001
0x207340e0: QueryPerformanceCounter(lpPerformanceCount = 0xb000ffd8) = 0x1
0x20738860: IsProcessorFeaturePresent(ProcessorFeature = 0xa) = 0x1
0x212ae760: _initterm_e(PVFV = 0x4020d8, PVFV = 0x4020e4) = 0x0
0x212a7260: _initterm(PVPV = 0x4020cc, PVPV = 0x4020d4) = 0x0
0x212fd880: __p___argv() = 0x40338c
0x212fd870: __p___argc() = 0x21352104
0x21330940: _get_initial_narrow_environment() = 0x21352108
0x212ad780: __acrt_iob_func() = 0x403380
0x2130f510: __stdio_common_vfprintf(stream = 0x0, format = 'GENERIC_READ = 0x%llx\n') = 0x403380
0x212ad780: __acrt_iob_func() = 0x403380
0x2130f510: __stdio_common_vfprintf(stream = 0x0, format = 'GENERIC_WRITE = 0x%llx\n') = 0x403380
0x212ad780: __acrt_iob_func() = 0x403380
0x2130f510: __stdio_common_vfprintf(stream = 0x0, format = 'INVALID_HANDLE = 0x%llx\n') = 0x403380
0x212ad780: __acrt_iob_func() = 0x403380
0x2130f510: __stdio_common_vfprintf(stream = 0x0, format = 'CREATE_ALWAYS = 0x%x\n') = 0x403380
0x212ad780: __acrt_iob_func() = 0x403380
0x2130f510: __stdio_common_vfprintf(stream = 0x0, format = 'FILE_ATTRIBUTE_NORMAL = 0x%x\n') = 0x403380
0x212ad780: __acrt_iob_func() = 0x403380
0x2130f510: __stdio_common_vfprintf(stream = 0x0, format = 'ERROR_SUCCESS = 0x%x\n') = 0x403380
0x2073e500: CreateFileA(lpFileName = 'malfile.exe', dwDesiredAccess = 0xc0000000, dwShareMode = 0x0, lpSecurityAttributes = 0x0, dwCreationDisposition = 0x2, dwFlagsAndAttributes = 0x80, hTemplateFile = 0x0) = 0xa0001578
0x207920d3: VerSetConditionMask() = 0x403380
0x212ad780: __acrt_iob_func() = 0x403380
0x2130f510: __stdio_common_vfprintf(stream = 0x0, format = 'out = 0x%x\n') = 0x403380
0x207920d3: VerSetConditionMask() = 0x403380
0x212ad780: __acrt_iob_func() = 0x403380
0x2130f510: __stdio_common_vfprintf(stream = 0x0, format = 'out = 0x%x\n') = 0x403380
0x207920d3: VerSetConditionMask() = 0x403380
0x212ad780: __acrt_iob_func() = 0x403380
0x2130f510: __stdio_common_vfprintf(stream = 0x0, format = 'out = 0x%x\n') = 0x403380
0x216b5730: memset(dest = 0xb000ff1c, char = 0x0, count = 0x58) = 0xb000ff1c
0x2073e920: WriteFile(hFile = 0xa0001578, lpBuffer = 0xb000ff10, nNumberOfBytesToWrite = 0xb, lpNumberOfBytesWritten = 0xb000ff0c, lpOverlapped = 0x0) = 0xb
0x20738860: IsProcessorFeaturePresent(ProcessorFeature = 0x17) = 0x1
0x2073ab20: SetUnhandledExceptionFilter(lpTopLevelExceptionFilter = 0x0) = 0x4
0x2075c770: UnhandledExceptionFilter(ExceptionInfo = 0x402100) = 0x1
0x207361b0: GetCurrentProcess() = 0x1
0x2073bd30: TerminateProcess(hProcess = 0xffffffff, uExitCode = 0xc0000409) = 0xffffffff