Vivisect MarkII is a next generation vivisect architecture which codifies lessons learned from the years of organic growth of the vdb, vtrace, cobra, envi, vstruct, and vivisect projects.
A number of design considerations are the foundation for the Viv MarkII effort.
- 100% python3 ( this feature alone would require a total refactor )
- unit tests unit tests unit tests ( shooting for 100% non-interface code coverage )
- portable / serializable data primitives
- async event driven architecture
- "impenetrable" abstraction layers
- "top" level APIs are RMI compatible
- more "data convention" less "data APIs" ( ie, setFooInfo("woot",10) > setFooWoot(10) )
- truly unified code ( previous vtrace + vivisect was a smash and go )
- ground-up distributed processing capability ( built in not bolt on )
- 0 cruft ( the legacy code base had grown organically )
and more I'm sure to think of later...
Vivisect command line tools are implemented as executable python modules which can be run using:
python -m
Vivisect tools:
- vivisect.tools.vdb - replacement for vdbbin, the vivisect debug cli
- vivisect.tools.viv - replacement for vivbin, the vivisect workspace cli
- vivisect.tools.bex - binary executable dumper ( multi-format )
