'Hello!

I’ve been playing recently a bit with Ghidra, which is a reverse engineering tool that was recently open sourced by the NSA. The official website describes the tool as:

A software reverse engineering (SRE) suite of tools developed by NSA’s Research Directorate in support of the Cybersecurity mission.

I’m at the beginning of my reverse engineering career, so I didn’t do anything advanced. I don’t know what features to expect from a professional tool like this, if you’re looking to read about advanced Ghidra features this is likely not the article for you.

In this article I will try to solve a simple CrackMe challenge that I’ve found on the website root-me. The challenge I’m solving is called ELF - CrackPass. If you want to give it try by yourself, then you should consider not reading this article because it will spoil the challenge from you.

Let’s get started! I open up Ghidra and create a new Project which I call RootMe.

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https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-i-solved-a-simple-crackme-challenge-with-the-nsas-ghidra-d7e793c5acd2/