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About afl-unicorn

afl-unicorn lets you fuzz any piece of binary that can be emulated by Unicorn Engine. If you can emulate the code you’re interested in using the Unicorn Engine, you can fuzz it with afl-unicorn. Unicorn Mode works by implementing the block-edge instrumentation that AFL’s QEMU mode normally does into Unicorn Engine. Basically, AFL will use block coverage information from any emulated code snippet to drive its input generation. The whole idea revolves around the proper construction of a Unicorn-based test harness. The Unicorn-based test harness loads the target code, sets up the initial state, and loads in data mutated by AFL from disk. The test harness then emulates the target binary code, and if it detects that a crash or error occurred it throws a signal. AFL will do all its normal stuff, but it’s actually fuzzing the emulated target binary code. Only tested on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, but it should work smoothly with any OS capable of running both AFL and Unicorn.

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