QNX Support in EMBA

Hello! I wanted to raise the idea of potentially adding QNX support to EMBA, to see what the maintainers thought and if it was a path worth putting energy towards.

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. QNX is a commercial "UNIX-like real time operating system" developed by BlackBerry. (You can view more info about the OS on their Wikipedia page) It's widely used as an embedded operating system, most notably within the automotive industry.

Currently, QNX-based firmware can be scanned using EMBA, but there aren't many QNX-specific detections or extractions within EMBA.

Describe the solution you'd like

• Add QNX OS detection to S06 - Linux distribution detection
• Add QNX IFS filesystem extraction module to "Pre-Modules"

And, as a stretch goal:

• Add QNX-specific bootloader and system startup file detection to S07
• Add QNX-specific microkernel detections to S24/S25, if possible
• Add QNX-specific CVEs/vulnerability reporting if an old/vulnerable version of QNX is detected

Describe alternatives you've considered Currently, much of this QNX analysis is possible manually. If you extract QNX filesystems outside of EMBA before scanning them, EMBA still does a great job scanning through all of their binaries - because of that, these requests are mainly just 'quality of life' improvements.

Priority issue Are you already a Sponsor? - No

Additional context

• One thing that could make IFS support particularly tricky is QNX's commercial/proprietary state. That being said, QNX has been made open source in the past and there are open source extractors for the IFS format, but I am definitely not an expert on software licensing.
• Additional details on QNX's "Image File System" (IFS) format are available on the QNX developer docs website: https://www.qnx.com/developers/docs/7.0.0/#com.qnx.doc.neutrino.building/topic/intro/intro_ifs.html
• Finding a piece of QNX firmware that is freely available and could be used for unit testing/feature testing could be difficult. Automotive companies in particular are usually somewhat restrictive with their firmware distribution.

Anyhow, thank you for reading! I'd be more than happy to help put these features together, if you think it would be a useful addition to EMBA. I'm a big fan of EMBA and poke at a lot of QNX stuff in my free time, so I'd love to see more QNX-related features added to the project.

Thanks!