efiXplorer - IDA plugin and loader for UEFI firmware analysis and reverse engineering automation

Documentation

• efiXplorer wiki
• efiXloader wiki
• Build instructions and installation

Publications

• efiXplorer: Hunting for UEFI Firmware Vulnerabilities at Scale with Automated Static Analysis
• Static analysis-based recovery of service function calls in UEFI firmware
• How efiXplorer helping to solve challenges in reverse engineering of UEFI firmware

Acknowledgements

Special thanks to:

• Hex-Rays, for their support of this project through the Hex-Rays Contributor Program
• All contributors who have helped improve this project (see CONTRIBUTORS.md for a list)
• The authors of the projects listed below for their ideas and research efforts

References

• https://github.com/LongSoft/UEFITool
• https://github.com/yeggor/uefi_retool
• https://github.com/gdbinit/EFISwissKnife
• https://github.com/snare/ida-efiutils
• https://github.com/al3xtjames/ghidra-firmware-utils
• https://github.com/DSecurity/efiSeek
• https://github.com/p-state/ida-efitools2
• https://github.com/zznop/bn-uefi-helper