Reko is a general-purpose decompiler that translates machine code binaries into a higher-level representation.
Its design separates the frontend, decompilation engine and output components, allowing the software to be used interactively, from the command line, or embedded within other .NET applications.
During analysis, Reko loads executable metadata, discovers executable regions and cross-references, constructs control-flow information and converts machine instructions into an architecture-independent intermediate representation. Users can supplement information lost during compilation by supplying types, names and comments.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Identifies supported executable formats from headers and other file information.
- Extracts memory areas, image segments, entry points, symbols and metadata.
- Translates machine instructions into a machine-independent register transfer language.
- Constructs control-flow graphs from jumps, calls and other branches.
- Uses recursive scanning to locate reachable executable code.
- Offers heuristic scanning for code missed by recursive analysis.
- Groups instructions into basic blocks and identifies procedures.
- Lets users supply additional type information to improve results.
- Supports user-defined procedure names and comments.
- Reads project files containing supplementary information about binaries.
- Provides a command-line frontend suitable for Linux.
- Includes graphical frontend development using Avalonia.
- Exposes its reverse-engineering object model through a .NET API.
- Supports scripting for applying names, comments and analysis information.
- Covers a wide variety of processor architectures and executable formats.
Website: github.com/uxmal/reko
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Developer: John Källén
License: GNU General Public License v2.0
Reko is written in C#. Learn C# with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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