Malcat Alternatives

Malcat is described as 'Feature-rich hexadecimal editor / disassembler / decompiler for reverse engineers and malware analysts. It has support for many file formats and CPUs, can scan for signatures, decrypt/decompress data, diff files and run python scripts' and is a Hex Editor in the development category. There are more than 25 alternatives to Malcat for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, BSD and Android apps. The best Malcat alternative is ImHex, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Malcat are HxD, Ghidra, IDA and Cutter.

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  1. dnSpy icon
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    dnSpy is a debugger and .NET assembly editor. You can use it to edit and debug assemblies even if you don't have any source code available.

    11 dnSpy alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  2. PE Explorer icon
     33 likes

    PE Explorer is the most feature-packed program for inspecting the inner workings of your own software, and more importantly, third party Windows applications and libraries for which you do not have source code.

    51 PE Explorer alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  3. Ghex icon
     15 likes

    GHex - a hex editor for GNOME

    GHex allows the user to load data from any file, view and edit it in either hex or ascii.

    Useful for debugging problems with object code or encodings.

    Also used by kids who cheat at computer games, by adding score or lives to saved games.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
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  4. angr icon
     2 likes

    angr is an open-source binary analysis platform for Python. It combines both static and dynamic symbolic ("concolic") analysis, providing tools to solve a variety of tasks.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Python
    • BSD
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  5. REDasm icon
     5 likes

    REDasm is a free and open source disassembler for Windows and Linux, built for both hobbyists and professional reverse engineers.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
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  6. pestudio icon
     7 likes

    pestudio implements a rich set of features that is especially designed to retrieve every single detail of any executable file. Results are checked against the Microsoft specification. Additionally, the content of the file being analyzed is checked against several white and black...

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  7. BinEd icon
     2 likes

    BinEd is a hex editor tool, which allows to directly browse and edit content of any file or binary data.

    Cost / License

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    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Java
    • Android
    • F-Droid
    • Apache NetBeans
    • IntelliJ IDEA
    • Eclipse
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  8. REHex icon
     1 like

    A cross-platform (Windows, Linux, Mac, BSD) hex editor for reverse engineering, and everything else.

    Cost / License

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • GB flagUnited Kingdom
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  9. Disassemble, Patch, and Compile executable files online.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
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  10. Synalyze It! icon
     8 likes

    You got a binary file and don't know its contents. Or some software creates binary files where you have a specification but don't want to decode them manually.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
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  11. Hiew icon
     7 likes

    Hiew (short for Hackers view) is a popular console hex editor for DOS and Windows written by Eugene Suslikov (sen). Amongst its feature set is its ability to view files in text, hex and disassembly mode.

    43 Hiew alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
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    HT is a file editor/viewer/analyzer for executables. The goal is to combine the low-level functionality of a debugger and the usability of IDEs. We plan to implement all (hex-)editing features and support of the most important file formats.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • FreeBSD
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