Hello,
I have a question when doing the binary analysis. For a given ELF file (hello.elf) that has already been identified for the ARM architecture, how can I quickly know if this ELF is for Cortex-A or Cortex-M? More specifically, I'm trying to identify the whole bare-metal images (or RTOS images like FreeRTOS) for the Cortex-M.
From the result of "file hello.elf":
% file hello.elf hello.elf: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, ARM, EABI5 version 1 (SYSV), statically linked, with debug_info, not stripped
We can only see that this ELF is for ARM.
And from the result of "readelf -h ./hello.elf":
% readelf -h ./hello.elf ELF Header: Magic: 7f 45 4c 46 01 01 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 Class: ELF32 Data: 2's complement, little endian Version: 1 (current) OS/ABI: UNIX - System V ABI Version: 0 Type: EXEC (Executable file) Machine: ARM Version: 0x1 Entry point address: 0xcb5 Start of program headers: 52 (bytes into file) Start of section headers: 150896 (bytes into file) Flags: 0x5000200, Version5 EABI, soft-float ABI Size of this header: 52 (bytes) Size of program headers: 32 (bytes) Number of program headers: 5 Size of section headers: 40 (bytes) Number of section headers: 19 Section header string table index: 17
It's also only showing this file is for the ARM architecture.
So are there any other approaches that can quickly identify the target architecture of an ELF file?
Thank you for your time!