reverse engineering - Disassembling A Flat Binary File Using objdump

Question

Can I disassemble a flat binary file using objdump?

I'm familiar with disassembling a structured binary executable such as an ELF file using:

objdump -d file.elf

But if I have a flat binary file that I know is supposed to be loaded at, e.g., address 0xabcd1000, can I ask objdump to disassemble it? I tried supplying options such as '--start-address=0xabcd1000' but objdump just states that it doesn't recognize the format.

I have other ideas about how to disassemble the file but I wanted to know if objdump could provide a simple solution.

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/14290879/disassembling-a-flat-binary-file-using-objdump

Answer 1

I found the solution to my own question on a different forum. It looks something like this:

objdump -b binary --adjust-vma=0xabcd1000 -D file.bin

I've tested this and it works.