---
title: "The Poor Man's Obfuscator"
description: "The purpose of this publication is to present ELF and Mach-O transformations which impact or hinder disassemblers like IDA, BinaryNinja, Ghidra, and Radare2."
canonical_url: "https://www.romainthomas.fr/publication/22-pst-the-poor-mans-obfuscator/"
authors: ["Romain Thomas"]
date_published: "2022-07-04T00:00:00Z"
date_modified: "2026-09-05T05:53:50+02:00"
language: "en-US"
section: "publication"
venue: "Pass The Salt"
tags: []
categories: []
---

# The Poor Man's Obfuscator

> The purpose of this publication is to present ELF and Mach-O transformations which impact or hinder disassemblers like IDA, BinaryNinja, Ghidra, and Radare2.

##  Slides

[PDF document](slides.pdf)

##  Whitepaper

[PDF document](whitepaper.pdf)

##  Video (English)

[Video](https://1884242627.rsc.cdn77.org/resources/passthesalt/r1263fff27edevq0oj41ih40jkmedo/media_1440_zKpK3tD2km.mp4)

##  Assets

https://github.com/romainthomas/the-poor-mans-obfuscator

## Resources

- Presented at: Pass The Salt
- [Paper (PDF)](https://www.romainthomas.fr/publication/22-pst-the-poor-mans-obfuscator/whitepaper.pdf)