Dynamic Binary Instrumentation (DBI) reading

Dynamic Binary Instrumentation Primer
- http://deniable.org/reversing/binary-instrumentation
- https://github.com/fdiskyou/DBI
Cross-ISA Machine Instrumentation using Fast and Scalable Dynamic Binary Translation
- Virtual Execution Environments (VEE) 2019
- Emilio G. Cota, Luca P. Carloni
- http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~cota/pubs/cota_vee19.pdf
- https://www.sld.cs.columbia.edu/qemu-vee.html
Optimization of Naïve Dynamic Binary Instrumentation Tools
- 2011 Ph.D. Dissertation; Reid Kleckner
- https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/76984
Security Evaluation of Dynamic Binary Instrumentation Engines
- DBI Engine Detection Tool and all PoC code
  - https://github.com/zhechkoz/PwIN
- 2018 Master Thesis; Zhechko Zhechev
  - https://kirschju.re/static/ma_zhechev_2018.pdf
- REcon Montreal 2018
- Pwning Intel piN – Why DBI is unsuitable for security applications
  - ESORICS 2018
  - Julian Kirsch, Zhechko Zhechev, Bruno Bierbaumer, Thomas Kittel
  - https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-99073-6_18
SoK: Using Dynamic Binary Instrumentation for Security (And How You May Get Caught Red Handed)
- Asia Conference on Computer and Communications Security (AsiaCCS) 2019
- Daniele Cono D’Elia, Emilio Coppa, Simone Nicchi, Federico Palmaro, Lorenzo Cavallaro
- https://doi.org/10.1145/3321705.3329819
- https://www.diag.uniroma1.it/~delia/papers/asiaccs2019.pdf
- https://github.com/season-lab/sok-dbi-security/
Using Binary Instrumentation for Vulnerability Discovery (or even mitigation!)

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