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Hexag00n: A collection of reverse engineering tools for the Qualcomm Digital Signal Proccesor (QDSP6)


Hexag00n


Hexagon is Qualcomm's Digital Signal Processor included in the Snapdragon series System-on-a-Chip found in billions of cellphones and other consumer electronic devices worldwide.

The Hexagon processor is a hardware multi-threaded, variable instruction length, VLIW processor architecture developed for efficient control and signal processing code execution at low power levels. It runs a proprietary Real Time Operating System and it is commonly used for modem and media processing applications. According to the manufacturer: "As of 2012, multiple Hexagon cores form the processing engine behind virtually every commercially shipping 4G LTE modem by Qualcomm Technologies"__ .

__ https://developer.qualcomm.com/software/hexagon-dsp-sdk/dsp-processor

This repository includes a collection of tools for security research and reverse engineering of the Qualcomm Hexagon (QDSP6)_ .

  • Brief introduction to Hexagon_.

  • Disassembler_: Standalone disassembler written in Python, based on the ISA specification in the Hexagon Programmer’s Reference Manual.

  • IDA processor module_: To load and analyze ELF binaries for the Hexagon architecture with IDA.

.. _Qualcomm Hexagon (QDSP6): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qualcomm_Hexagon

.. _Brief introduction to Hexagon: ./docs/intro_to_hexagon.rst

.. _Disassembler: ./hexagondisasm

.. _IDA processor module: ./ida

License

The BSD 2-Clause License. For more information, see LICENSE_.

.. _LICENSE: ./LICENSE

Collaborators

  • Lucas Molas

  • Iván Arce

  • Juan Heguiabehere

  • Christian Heitman

  • D.C.

Contact Us

The preferred way of participation is through the GitHub’s issue tracker <https://github.com/programa-stic/hexag00n/issues>_, but for a private channel of communication send an email to stic at fundacionsadosky dot org dot ar.