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Re: Re: Has anyone a good flow-tracker?
Monday, 15-Feb-99 07:51:42
Yep, I'm probably using the term 'flow-analyzer' incorrectly. I don't know where I heard the term flow-tracker, but that's what I actually mean: a tool to let you know LIFE wich parts of a target's code are active at a given moment. There was such a tool for dos programs (don't remember the exact name now, but should be on fravia's tools page) but, apart from Smartcheck etcetera, that can provide some amount of flow-analyzing, I'm not aware that such a tool exists for windows programs. Yet, to me, it does not seem terribly difficult to implement
-Run target
-create an output (à la smartcheck) with the codelocations of the target's code where the api-calls are originated if user interacts then record such interactions
-offer various levels of details -quick, -verbose, etcetera
Surely such a tool already exists -and you can imagine how useful this would be for reversing purposes- only I could not find it until now on the web.
Anyway even a flow-analyzer for dead listings would be useful, if the output could help us to reverse unknown portions of target's code. Yet I have the impression -probably wrong and due to my moderate search capabilities- that the web does not offer much in this field either...
Thanks anyway for your answer, _Mammon
Should anyone have knowledge of such tools, please post.
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