What is TRITON?
TRITON is a dynamic binary analysis and instrumentation framework created by Quarkslab for analyzing Windows, Linux, macOS, and UNIX binaries. It facilitates reverse engineering and malware analysis tasks such as:
- Dynamic unpacking and tracing of packers/protectors
- Reconstruction of accurate call graphs and control flow graphs
- Precise dynamic hooking of program functions and instructions
- Tracing memory accesses, logging Windows API calls
- Detection of anti-debugging and anti-emulation tricks
By inserting instrumentation into binary code, TRITON enables low-level observation and analysis of program execution at runtime. It comes with Python bindings for scripting instrumentation tasks. The open-source framework is designed to be modular and extensible.
TRITON competes with other dynamic binary instrumentation tools like Intel Pin, DynamoRIO, and Frida. It runs on Windows, Linux and macOS systems. The key advantage of TRITON is providing fine-grained control over binary instrumentation through Python scripting as well as native APIs.