O conteúdo dos binários pode ser lido com o utilitário readelf. Isso também funciona com arquivos ELF criados para outras arquiteturas de hardware:

$ readelf --file-header /bin/ls
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:                           Intel 80386 
Version:                           0x1 
Entry point address:               0x8049b40 
Start of program headers:          52 (bytes into file) 
Start of section headers:          76192 (bytes into file) 
Flags:                             0x0 
Size of this header:               52 (bytes) 
Size of program headers:           32 (bytes) 
Number of program headers:         9 
Size of section headers:           40 (bytes) 
Number of section headers:         29 
Section header string table index: 26