read elf files without symbole table

[Flo354]

Hi,

I made some modifications to your tool. Bellow, the changelist

• The tool is now able to parse elf files without symbol table.
• The printf of libbase are now redirected into android logs (tag "LIBHOOK")
• New makefile to reduce the number of commands

The fork is available here : https://github.com/Flo354/adbi

[jduck]

Please send a clean PR!

[jduck]

BTW, what is the motivation for doing this anyway? I totally get the idea to log to Android's logging system, but why parse elf files without symbol tables?? Why not use the Android.mk build method via the NDK's "ndk-build" command??

[jduck]

Honestly I see multiple PR here:

1. converting the README into proper markdown
2. implementing a different log() mechanism using __android_log_print
   NOTE: PR 2 should not interfere with the existing method and so should be guarded by some ifdef or similar

The rest of the changes are questionable and therefore need more explanation before they can be considered for inclusion.

[Flo354]

Hi,

1 year after :p I had totally forgotten that pull request.

To answer your question about the parsing of elf files without symbol tables, it's quite simple. I had to audit an application one year ago and I could not use adbi since the application stripped the symbol table to make the reverse engineering more difficult.
So I made this modification at first, and then the log mechanism after.

I will do the modifications as soon as possible, since I have my finals soon.