Demangling Swift Symbols for Reverse Engineering

In this video, we demangle Swift symbols for reverse engineering an iOS binary. I demonstrate how you can demangle identifiers by hand, via the command line, or even with a custom Ghidra script!
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Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
01:18 Control Flow Flattening
02:30 Manual Decode
05:06 Automated Decode
08:18 Custom Ghidra Script
09:46 Demangle all the symbols!
10:49 Walking through the code
11:42 Swift vs Objective C
12:16 Recap
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Links Mentioned in Video:
iOS Reverse Engineering Wiki:
github.com/LaurieWired/iOS_Re...
Swift Downloads:
www.swift.org/download/
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Nice rundown. Thanks for saving me some time with Swift.

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Awesome, I'll definitely use your Python script as a template when I need to demangle stuff in Ghidra!

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Hi, thanks for the new info again Laurie ❤ A question: Is it necessary that Swift compiled binary will always have text section as named "Swift" or "_$s" ? Isn't it possible to obfuscate them or something like that... Am not an iOS user so don't have such info :(

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