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http://www.frida.re/ http://www.frida.re/ looks actually very interesting.

taftster 12y ago
The author linked to the site something like 37 times in the article. It made me not want to click through, thinking the article was just a shill blog post. Your short comment reinforces this. Why exactly do you think Frida looks interesting?
- albertzeyer 12y ago
  I haven't tested it yet but I like to be able to inject into running native apps and control them, debug them, etc. On MacOSX, there is the SIMBL project which enables such a plugin architecture for any OSX apps. E.g. you can get extra features like window-always-on-top, window-transparency, etc. And you can automate / script some apps which would not be scriptable otherwise or to such extend. Or you could add specific features to applications. E.g. Dropbox on MacOSX uses a technic like this to display some state-icon of its Dropbox directory in Finder. Some links to SIMBL: https://github.com/norio-nomura/EasySIMBL https://github.com/norio-nomura/EasySIMBL https://code.google.com/p/simbl/wiki/SIMBLPlugins https://code.google.com/p/simbl/wiki/SIMBLPlugins SIMBL would inject other native code into to some app. In most cases you would inject other ObjC code. I like the idea to dynamically script or mess around with an app. For that reason, I used SIMBL to inject Python + iTerm + PyObjC. That way, you can interactively interact with any app with Python. https://github.com/albertz/Pyjector https://github.com/albertz/Pyjector A similar project is this: https://github.com/albertz/FScriptAnywhereSIMBL https://github.com/albertz/FScriptAnywhereSIMBL And this Frida looks like a similar more modern project with JavaScript and support for Windows, Mac, Linux, iOS and Android.
- oleavr 12y ago
  Oops, in retrospect I should have resisted my OCD-fueled urge to link every single reference to be consistent. :p Speaking as its creator and maintainer, it's been a pet project for the last 5 years (7 if you start from frida-gum, the code instrumentation engine), but to this day it's still rather obscure considering its potential. I regret not spending more time marketing the project over the years, so these days I'm doing my best to make up for that. :)
nekitamo 12y ago
It is, but I could never get it to work on my Windows machine. Process is always suspended upon startup, and only continues after I detach frida. I am working with his examples here: http://ospy.org/frida/windows/examples/ http://ospy.org/frida/windows/examples/
- oleavr 12y ago
  That's interesting. Does it work for any processes at all? Would you be interested in trying to reproduce it with the latest Frida from git?

The author linked to the site something like 37 times in the article. It made me not want to click through, thinking the article was just a shill blog post. Your short comment reinforces this. Why exactly do you think Frida looks interesting?

albertzeyer 12y ago
I haven't tested it yet but I like to be able to inject into running native apps and control them, debug them, etc. On MacOSX, there is the SIMBL project which enables such a plugin architecture for any OSX apps. E.g. you can get extra features like window-always-on-top, window-transparency, etc. And you can automate / script some apps which would not be scriptable otherwise or to such extend. Or you could add specific features to applications. E.g. Dropbox on MacOSX uses a technic like this to display some state-icon of its Dropbox directory in Finder. Some links to SIMBL: https://github.com/norio-nomura/EasySIMBL https://github.com/norio-nomura/EasySIMBL https://code.google.com/p/simbl/wiki/SIMBLPlugins https://code.google.com/p/simbl/wiki/SIMBLPlugins SIMBL would inject other native code into to some app. In most cases you would inject other ObjC code. I like the idea to dynamically script or mess around with an app. For that reason, I used SIMBL to inject Python + iTerm + PyObjC. That way, you can interactively interact with any app with Python. https://github.com/albertz/Pyjector https://github.com/albertz/Pyjector A similar project is this: https://github.com/albertz/FScriptAnywhereSIMBL https://github.com/albertz/FScriptAnywhereSIMBL And this Frida looks like a similar more modern project with JavaScript and support for Windows, Mac, Linux, iOS and Android.
oleavr 12y ago
Oops, in retrospect I should have resisted my OCD-fueled urge to link every single reference to be consistent. :p Speaking as its creator and maintainer, it's been a pet project for the last 5 years (7 if you start from frida-gum, the code instrumentation engine), but to this day it's still rather obscure considering its potential. I regret not spending more time marketing the project over the years, so these days I'm doing my best to make up for that. :)

nekitamo 12y ago

It is, but I could never get it to work on my Windows machine. Process is always suspended upon startup, and only continues after I detach frida. I am working with his examples here: http://ospy.org/frida/windows/examples/ http://ospy.org/frida/windows/examples/

oleavr 12y ago
That's interesting. Does it work for any processes at all? Would you be interested in trying to reproduce it with the latest Frida from git?