VMEmu uses unicorn to emulate x86_64 instructions which make up the virtual machine handlers. This project is extremely simple in that it will check every executed instruction in order to find any `JMP` instruction which uses a register and jumps to a vm handler. When this JMP is executed all native registers, virtual scratch registers, and the virtual stack are saved into a trace entry. Emulation ends when a VMEXIT instruction is found.
VMEmu uses unicorn to emulate x86_64 instructions which make up the virtual machine handlers. This project is extremely simple in that it will check every executed instruction in order to find any `JMP` instruction which uses a register and jumps to a vm handler. When this JMP is executed all native registers, virtual scratch registers, and the virtual stack are saved into a trace entry. Emulation ends when a VMEXIT instruction is found.
You can continue the analysis using IDA outside of the virtual machine and then use VMEmu again once execution enters back into the virtual machine. I have plans to turn this into a library and inherit this library into `vmprofiler-qt` and make a split view where you can see what native instructions are executed prior to the next vm entry. However for now this project is used to generate vmtrace files which `vmprofiler-qt` can parse.
You can continue the analysis using IDA outside of the virtual machine and then use VMEmu again once execution enters back into the virtual machine. I have plans to turn this into a library and inherit this library into `vmprofiler-qt` and make a split view where you can see what native instructions are executed prior to the next vm entry. However for now this project is used to generate vmtrace files which `vmprofiler-qt` can parse.
# Usage - Creating A Trace
In order to use VMEmu you must have an unpacked VMProtect 2 binary which you know some basic information about.
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Usage: uc-tracer [options...]
Options:
--vmentry relative virtual address to a vm entry... (Required)
--vmpbin path to unpacked virtualized binary... (Required)
--imagebase image base from optional PE header... (Required)
--out output file name for trace file... (Required)
--advancement the way in which the virtual instruction pointer advances... 'forward' or 'backward'... (Required)