/* Copyright (C) 2001-present by Serge Lamikhov-Center Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions: The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software. THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE. */ /* * This example shows how to create ELF object file for Linux on x86 * * Instructions: * 1. Compile and link this file with ELFIO library * g++ writer.cpp -o writer * 2. Execute result file write_obj * ./writer * 3. Add executable flag to the output file * chmod +x hello_x86_64 * 4. Run the result file: * ./hello_x86_64 */ #include using namespace ELFIO; const Elf64_Addr CODE_ADDR = 0x00401000; const Elf_Xword PAGE_SIZE = 0x1000; const Elf64_Addr DATA_ADDR = CODE_ADDR + PAGE_SIZE; int main( void ) { elfio writer; // You can't proceed without this function call! writer.create( ELFCLASS64, ELFDATA2LSB ); writer.set_os_abi( ELFOSABI_LINUX ); writer.set_type( ET_EXEC ); writer.set_machine( EM_X86_64 ); // Create code section section* text_sec = writer.sections.add( ".text" ); text_sec->set_type( SHT_PROGBITS ); text_sec->set_flags( SHF_ALLOC | SHF_EXECINSTR ); text_sec->set_addr_align( 0x10 ); // Add data into it char text[] = { '\xB8', '\x04', '\x00', '\x00', '\x00', // mov eax, 4 '\xBB', '\x01', '\x00', '\x00', '\x00', // mov ebx, 1 '\xB9', '\x00', '\x00', '\x00', '\x00', // mov ecx, msg '\xBA', '\x0E', '\x00', '\x00', '\x00', // mov edx, 14 '\xCD', '\x80', // int 0x80 '\xB8', '\x01', '\x00', '\x00', '\x00', // mov eax, 1 '\xCD', '\x80' // int 0x80 }; // Adjust data address for 'msg' *(uint32_t*)( text + 11 ) = DATA_ADDR; text_sec->set_data( text, sizeof( text ) ); // Create a loadable segment segment* text_seg = writer.segments.add(); text_seg->set_type( PT_LOAD ); text_seg->set_virtual_address( CODE_ADDR ); text_seg->set_physical_address( CODE_ADDR ); text_seg->set_flags( PF_X | PF_R ); text_seg->set_align( PAGE_SIZE ); // Add code section into program segment text_seg->add_section_index( text_sec->get_index(), text_sec->get_addr_align() ); // Create data section section* data_sec = writer.sections.add( ".data" ); data_sec->set_type( SHT_PROGBITS ); data_sec->set_flags( SHF_ALLOC | SHF_WRITE ); data_sec->set_addr_align( 0x4 ); char data[] = { '\x48', '\x65', '\x6C', '\x6C', '\x6F', // msg: db 'Hello, World!', 10 '\x2C', '\x20', '\x57', '\x6F', '\x72', '\x6C', '\x64', '\x21', '\x0A' }; data_sec->set_data( data, sizeof( data ) ); // Create a read/write segment segment* data_seg = writer.segments.add(); data_seg->set_type( PT_LOAD ); data_seg->set_virtual_address( DATA_ADDR ); data_seg->set_physical_address( DATA_ADDR ); data_seg->set_flags( PF_W | PF_R ); data_seg->set_align( PAGE_SIZE ); // Add code section into program segment data_seg->add_section_index( data_sec->get_index(), data_sec->get_addr_align() ); // Add optional signature for the file producer section* note_sec = writer.sections.add( ".note" ); note_sec->set_type( SHT_NOTE ); note_sec->set_addr_align( 1 ); note_section_accessor note_writer( writer, note_sec ); note_writer.add_note( 0x01, "Created by ELFIO", 0, 0 ); char descr[6] = { 0x31, 0x32, 0x33, 0x34, 0x35, 0x36 }; note_writer.add_note( 0x01, "Never easier!", descr, sizeof( descr ) ); // Setup entry point. Usually, a linker sets this address on base of // ‘_start’ label. // In this example, the code starts at the first address of the // 'text_seg' segment. Therefore, the start address is set // to be equal to the segment location writer.set_entry( CODE_ADDR ); // Create ELF file writer.save( "hello_x86_64" ); return 0; }