libpawn

C library that is intended for providing methods for executing and injecting code.

Features

• Supports different ways of loading executable files in-memory.
• Supports most common executable file formats: ELF, PE and Mach-O.
• Lightweight and small library that can be ported to almost every single program.

Building libpawn

cmake -B build
cd build
make
sudo make install

Arch	Support
x64	yes
aarch64	yes
armv5l	yes
i486	yes
mips	yes
powerpc	yes
s390x	yes
armv5b	yes
mips64	yes
mipsel	yes
powerpc64le	yes

API usage

#include <pawn.h>

Mach-O

Execute main function from Mach-O bundle from buffer and pass argv and env as arguments.

int pawn_exec_bundle(usigned char *bundle, size_t size, char *argv[], char *env[]);

ELF

Execute ELF from buffer and pass argv and env to it.

int pawn_exec(unsigned char *elf, char *argv[], char *env[])

NOTE: This method does not work for statically linked targets since it uses dynamic interpreter as a part of ELF loading chain.

Write ELF to the file descriptor from buffer and execute it.

int pawn_exec_fd(unsigned char *elf, char *argv[], char *env[])

Examples

• For examples - examples