binexport: consider following data references to resolve pointers to data
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binexport
enhancement
- Dominant language
- Python
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Description
We do this with our other feature extractors e.g. IDA. It's not clear, however, if BinExport provides enough context for this so research is needed to determine if this is possible and practical.
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by reading capa/features/extractors/ida/helpers.py around line 359 to understand how the IDA extractor follows data references. Then investigate whether BinExport exposes enough context to resolve pointers to data and whether that approach is practical. Done means documenting a clear feasibility result and the implementation scope, if applicable.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- python
- Domain
- reverse-engineering
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100