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Ghidra Software Reverse Engineering for Beginners
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A loader is a Ghidra extension module that extends from the AbstractLibrarySupportLoader
class. This class has the following methods: getName
, findSupportedLoadSpecs
, load
, and, optionally, if supporting custom options, getDefaultOptions
and validateOptions
.
I'm assuming that you are familiar with loaders and these methods because they were superficially overviewed in Chapter 4, Using Ghidra Extensions.
The existing Ghidra loader for MZ files must be able to parse the old-style DOS executable (MZ) file as we did by using HexIt v.1.57 in the Formatted binaries section of this chapter. To do that, Ghidra implements a parser for these kinds of binaries that is available here: https://github.com/NationalSecurityAgency/ghidra/tree/master/Ghidra/Features/Base/src/main/java/ghidra/app/util/bin/format/mz.
This link contains three files:
DOSHeader.java
: A file implementing the old-style DOS executable...