Radare2 is a portable reversing framework.
The project started as a forensics tool, a scriptable command-line hexadecimal editor able to open disk files, but later added support for analyzing binaries, disassembling code, debugging programs, attaching to remote gdb servers…
Radare2 comes with an embedded webserver which serves a pure HTML/JS interface that sends AJAX queries to the core and aims to implement an usable UI for phones, tablets and desktops.
Key Features
- Disassemble (and assemble for) many different architectures.
- Debug with local native and remote debuggers (gdb, rap, webui, r2pipe, winedbg, windbg).
- Perform forensics on filesystems and data carving.
- Be scripted in Python, JavaScript, Go and more.
- Support collaborative analysis using the embedded webserver.
- Visualize data structures of several file types.
- Patch programs to uncover new features or fix vulnerabilities.
- Use powerful analysis capabilities to speed up reversing.
- Aid in software exploitation.
- File formats supported: avr, coff, dex, elf, elf64, fatmach0, java, mach0, mach064, minidump, mz, pe, pe64, zip (jar, apk, ipa), and ihex.
- Cross-platform support – runs on Linux, *BSD, Windows, OS X, Android, iOS, Solaris and Haiku.
Website: rada.re/r, Beta site
Support: Blog, Documentation, GitHub Code Repository
Developer: pancake and contributors
License: GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0
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