Bulk Operations with personal licence

[BluePython339]

Hey, how would i go about performing bulk operations of multiple binary files and extracting say the exact assembly from a binary and write it to a text file? I noted the python console in the GUI but that isn't really practical for doing these bulk operations

[psifertex]

That's the only mechanism supported. The "headless" feature as described on the purchase page explains the differences between the commercial product and the non-commercial license, and this is exactly it: https://binary.ninja/purchase/

That said, there's no reason you can't write plugins that do bulk processing as long as the UI is running.

For example, drop the following file into your plugin folder:

#batch.py
from binaryninja import open_view
from glob import glob
def go():
    for bin in glob("/bin/*"):
        with open_view(bin, update_analysis=False) as bv:
            print(f"Opening {bv.file.filename} which has {len(bv.functions)} functions")

Then run it via the console with:

import batch
from importlib import reload
reload(batch);batch.go()

Then you can just <up><enter> in the console to reload any changes from the file and re-run it.

I realize it's more convenient to be able to just directly run python stand-alone straight into the core, but that's one of the very few limitations we have on the non-commercial version versus commercial. Note that the student discount also applies to the commercial version, so many students still chose to get the commercial version for just this capability.

[tosanjay]

PS: I found "binaryninja.interaction" to ask for the file I want to analyze, but it is still entering the file name explicitly (again). If no solution to my original query, this is a workaround.

[tosanjay]

If a binary is already open in the UI, bv is the binary view you need. It is a magical variable we injected to the Python environment.

But this is available via python console. What I am looking for is to have my module (analysis script) loaded (import my_script), which does some analysis on the opened binary.

[psifertex]

Registering your plugin with: https://api.binary.ninja/binaryninja.plugin-module.html?highlight=register#binaryninja.plugin.PluginCommand.register

will get you a callback with the current BV attached. Then you trigger it via the tools/plugin menu or the command-palette.

You can also use the UI Plugin APIs to walk all open tabs for more complicated interactions but I don't recommend that route unless it's necessary for other reasons.

[tosanjay]

Thank you @psifertex. this seems very nice. I will try this method and report back :)

[tosanjay]

Hi @psifertex, Yes, your solution works very well. Thank you :)