PEDA

How it works

PEDA is loaded by adding it to your GDB configuration (~/.gdbinit). It then provides a list of functions within GDB.

• aslr (Show or set ASLR settings of GDB)
• checksec (Show security options of the binary)
• dumpargs (Display function arguments when stopped at a call instruction)
• dumprop (Show ROP gadgets in defined memory range)
• elfheader (Get ELF header information)
• elfsymbol (Get ELF non-debugging symbol information)
• lookup (Search for all addresses/references to addresses which belong to a memory range)
• patch (Patch memory start at an address with string/hexstring/int)
• pattern (Generate, search, or write a cyclic pattern to memory)
• procinfo (Display various info from /proc/[pid]/)
• pshow (Show various PEDA options and other settings)
• pset (Set various PEDA options and other settings)
• readelf (Get headers information from an ELF file)
• ropgadget (Get common ROP gadgets of binary or library)
• ropsearch (Search for ROP gadgets in memory)
• searchmem|find (Search for a pattern in memory)
• shellcode (Generate or download common shellcodes)
• skeleton (Generate python exploit code template)
• vmmap (Get virtual mapping address ranges)
• xormem (XOR a memory region with a defined value)