Reversing Ewasm smart contracts 101 - EthCC 2020

I just gave a talk/workshop today (03/2020) at EthCC 2020 (Paris – France), about reversing Ewasm (Ethereum flavored WebAssembly) smart contract.

In this talk, I briefly introduce WebAssembly concepts , Ewasm ethereum specificity and opcodes/instructions. Secondly, I show how to create Ewasm smart contracts and expose different techniques/tools to perform WebAssembly module closed-source analysis. Finally, we go through some basic examples to apply reversing (reverse engineering) on those Ewasm contracts and understand the logic inside.

Here is the summary:

  • Introduction to WebAssembly
  • What is Ewasm?
    • Ewasm execution engine / public testnet
    • Solidity/YUL to Ewasm
    • Ethereum Contract Interface (ECI)
  • Reversing Ewasm Bytecode
    • Why?
    • Disassembling
    • CFG & Call graph
  • Examples
    • Deployment Bytecode
    • Storage contract
    • ERC-20
  • Conclusion

Slides of the talk is available here and code examples are available directly on my github.

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Patrick Ventuzelo / @Pat_Ventuzelo

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