COD file is a proprietary file format developed by RIM. Generally speaking it is some kind of modified Java .class file. I could not find any information around except this resource , but unfortunately there was no clue how to dig into codfile format as well. So I had a quick look on it by myself and here is a brief description of what I could find so far.
A codfile contains four sections: header, code segment, data segment and tail. A header structure is quite simple:
typedef struct { // codfh
int flashid;
uint section_number; //always 0
uint vtable_pointer; //always 0
time_t timestamp;
uint user_version;
uint fieldref_pointer;
ushort maxtype_list_size;
short reserved; //always 0xFF
int data_section; //always 0xFFFF
int module_info; //always 0xFFFF
ushort version;
ushort code_size;
ushort data_size;
ushort flags;
} CODFILEHEADER;
SizeOf (CODFILEHEADER) = 0x2C;
The next section is a code segment it starts from offset 0x2C and has length from Code segment size field, then goes a data
segment with size from field Data segment size and then a tail.
Format of information in Code and Data segments is still required some work, but at least I have a something to begin with.
Hi man! I feel so happy to find someone interested in .cod reversing. I’ve already made a loader (ldw) for IDA to load the .cod files. But i’m stuck with reversing the JVM opcodes. They’ve changed the opcodes for simple instuctions like iload and replaced the “goto” and “invoke” commands by their own. If you’re still interested in BB reversing here’s my ICQ 157363553.
Sounds fantastic mate, next week I’ll publish through this blog a script for 010 Editor with more information of structures of COD file.
Will contact you soon.
If you could post how to reverse .cod files that would be fantastic! I need to edit a .cod file so it better fits what I want from the program.
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