radare2
Radare project started as a forensics tool, a scriptable commandline hexadecimal editor able to open disk files, but later support for analyzing binaries, disassembling code, debugging programs, attaching to remote gdb servers, ...
License model
- Free • Open Source
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Android
- iPhone
- Android Tablet
- BSD
- iPad
- C (programming language)
- Git
- Haiku
- Docker
Features
- Debugging
- Hexadecimal
- Disassembler
- Visual Mode
- Visualizer
radare2 News & Activities
Recent activities
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radare2 information
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Open Source (LGPL-3.0) and Free product.Written in
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- 868 Open Issues
- Updated Oct 13, 2024
What is radare2?
Radare project started as a forensics tool, a scriptable commandline hexadecimal editor able to open disk files, but later support for analyzing binaries, disassembling code, debugging programs, attaching to remote gdb servers, ...
Radare is a portable reversing framework that can...
• Disassemble (and assemble for) many different architectures • Debug with local native and remote debuggers (gdb, rap, webui, r2pipe, winedbg, windbg) • Run on Linux, *BSD, Windows, OSX, Android, iOS, Solaris and Haiku • 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
Said about radare2 as an alternative
Radare is not a Hex Editor, it's a reverse engineering toolkit. Thus, not appropriate as an alternative to ImHex.
Cutter is a GUI on top of radare2, but radare2 itself has a text mode GUI that is perfectly usable.