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Reverse engineering and malware analysis

Disassemblers, decompilers and pattern-matching tools used to analyse binaries and classify malware.

Alternatives toIDA Pro

6 tools

  • Ghidra

    Software reverse engineering framework from the NSA

    Reverse engineering suite released by the NSA with disassembly, decompilation, graphing and scripting for many processor architectures.

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    Apache-2.0Open sourceReverse engineering and malware analysis
    Alternative toIDA Pro

  • Apktool

    Reverse engineering tool for Android APK files

    Decodes Android APK resources and code to a near-original form (smali) and rebuilds them after modification, for analysis and testing.

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    Apache-2.0Open sourceMobile application security

  • radare2

    UNIX-like reverse engineering framework

    Command-line reverse engineering framework with a disassembler, debugger, hex editor and scripting for many architectures and file formats.

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    LGPL-3.0-onlyOpen sourceReverse engineering and malware analysis
    Alternative toIDA Pro

  • Frida

    Dynamic instrumentation toolkit

    Injects a JavaScript engine into running processes on Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS and Android to trace, hook and modify functions at runtime.

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    LGPL-2.0-or-later WITH WxWindows-exception-3.1Open sourceMobile application security
    Alternative toNowSecure

  • YARA

    Pattern matching for malware research

    Tool and rule language from VirusTotal to identify and classify malware samples using textual and binary patterns plus conditions.

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    BSD-3-ClauseOpen sourceReverse engineering and malware analysis