Reverse engineering

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• How I discovered Instagram's upcoming video calling feature on iOS
• Reverse Engineering for Beginners
• Binary Analysis Platform - Reverse engineering and program analysis platform that works with binary code and doesn't require the source code.
• Ghidra - Software reverse engineering (SRE) framework created and maintained by the National Security Agency Research Directorate. (Web) (HN)
• A first look at Ghidra's Debugger - Game Boy Advance Edition (2020)
• Binary Analysis Next Generation (BANG) - Framework for unpacking files (like firmware) recursively and running checks on the unpacked files.
• radare2 - UNIX-like reverse engineering framework and command-line toolset.
• Rizin - Fork of the radare2 reverse engineering framework with a focus on usability, working features and code cleanliness. (Web) (HN)
• Cutter - Free and open-source reverse engineering framework powered by radare2.
• Reverse Engineering For Beginners (2019)
• Reverse engineering course (Focuses on x64 Windows) (HN)
• Great reverse engineering courses list
• Open Security Training Info (HN)
• RPISEC RE/VR Courses
• pixd - Colourful visualization tool for binary files.
• Datalog Disassembly - Fast disassembler which is accurate enough for the resulting assembly code to be reassembled.
• GTIRB - Intermediate Representation for Binary analysis and transformation.
• bed - Binary editor written in Go.
• Reverse engineering my router's firmware with binwalk (2020)
• Frida - Dynamic instrumentation toolkit for developers, reverse-engineers, and security researchers. (Code) (Awesome Frida)
• Malware Analysis and Reverse Engineering Course (HN)
• Capstone - Disassembly framework with the target of becoming the ultimate disasm engine for binary analysis and reversing in the security community.
• Nightmare – Guided Intro to Binary Exploitation/Reverse Engineering
• Exploit Development course (2019)
• pwn.college - Learn & practice, core cybersecurity concepts in a hands-on fashion. (HN)
• Renovate - Library for binary analysis and rewriting in Haskell.
• TEE Reversing - Curated list of public TEE resources for learning how to reverse-engineer and achieve trusted code execution on ARM devices.
• Reverse Engineering Stickies.app
• Reversing Firmware With Radare (2019)
• Interactive guide to Buffer Overflow exploitation (2019)
• pwndbg - Exploit Development and Reverse Engineering with GDB Made Easy.
• Integrate Ghidra's decompiler as an Ida plugin
• Solving lagrange reversing challenge with Cutter (2020)
• e9patch - Powerful static binary rewriting tool.
• Polypyus - Learns to locate functions in raw binaries by extracting known functions from similar binaries.
• Pharos Static Binary Analysis Framework
• Pafish - Demonstration tool that employs several techniques to detect sandboxes and analysis environments in the same way as malware families do.
• GEF - GDB Enhanced Features for exploit devs & reversers
• Surveyor - Interactive binary explorer.
• Awesome Ghidra
• Reverse Engineering Snapchat: Obfuscation Techniques (2020) (HN)
• Reverse-engineering and comparing two Game Boy audio amplifier chips (2020)
• Reverse Engineering the Comtech AHA363 PCIe Gzip Accelerator Board (2020) (HN)
• Why can't decompilers perfectly reconstruct source code? (2020)
• Reverse Engineering Starling Bank (Part I): Obfuscation Techniques (2020)
• Reverse-engineering the adder inside the Intel 8086 (HN)
• A reverse engineering challenge: an intricate visual pattern in 39 bytes (Lobsters)
• Hiding messages in x86 binaries using semantic duals (2020) (Lobsters)
• Reverse Engineering GTA V's Stunt Jump System (2020)
• ARM Exploitation Book
• Super Mario Bros. 3 in 3 Minutes – World Record Speedrun Explained (2020) (HN)
• Reverse engineering the Logitech Harmony (2020) (Lobsters)
• Reverse engineering my cable modem and turning it into an SDR (2020)
• ReSilicon - Place to discuss reverse engineering of integrated circuits, silicon die, methods of decapsulating epoxy and delayering polysilicon.
• Reverse-Engineering YouTube (2017)
• Spedi - Speculative disassembly, CFG recovery, and call-graph recovery from stripped binaries.
• bcov - Static instrumentation tool for efficient binary-level coverage analysis.
• Decompetition - Reverse Engineering Competition.
• Learning Binary Analysis for Debugging and More (2020)
• Improve Software Debugging with Binary Analysis (2020)
• PCB Reverse Engineering: Eric Schlaepfer (2020)
• Chris Domas - Repsych: Psychological Warfare in Reverse Engineering (2015)
• Reverse Engineering 101 in 20 min
• Visualizing binaries with space-filling curves (Lobsters)
• Reverse Engineering Bumble’s API (2020)
• Reverse Engineering Tutorial - Comprehensive reverse engineering tutorial covering x86, x64, 32-bit ARM & 64-bit ARM architectures.
• ImHex - Hex Editor for Reverse Engineers. (HN) (Web) (HN)
• Triton - Dynamic Binary Analysis (DBA) framework.
• How I reverse-engineered Google Docs to play back any document's keystrokes (2014) (HN)
• Reverse-engineering an early calculator chip with four-phase logic (2020)
• Qiling Framework - Advanced Binary Emulation Framework. (Code)
• Reverse Engineering my Christmas Tree (2020) (HN)
• Injection techniques - Notes on various process injection techniques.
• PANDA - Open-source Platform for Architecture-Neutral Dynamic Analysis. (Web)
• Lighthouse - Code Coverage Explorer for Reverse Engineers.
• How I cut GTA Online loading times by 70% (2021) (HN) (Lobsters)
• It Can Happen to You (2021) (HN)
• Scripts for Hopper Disassembler
• HopperScripts - Python Scripts for use with Hopper Disassembler.
• Reverse-engineering the standard-cell logic inside a vintage IBM chip (2021)
• Tenet - Trace Explorer for Reverse Engineers. (Article)
• Reverse Engineering an Unknown Microcontroller (HN)
• Nightmare - Intro to binary exploitation / reverse engineering course based around ctf challenges.
• Miasm - Reverse engineering framework in Python.
• Pwning Home Router - Linksys WRT54G (2021) (Lobsters)
• Reverse Engineering the M6 Smart Fitness Bracelet (2021)
• Asteria: Deep Learning-based AST-Encoding for Cross-platform Binary Code Similarity Detection (2021) (Code) (Reddit)
• Reopt - Tool for analyzing x86-64 binaries.
• Awesome Binary Rewriting
• radius - Fast binary emulation and symbolic execution framework using radare2.
• binocle - Graphical tool to visualize binary data.
• Zydis - Fast and lightweight x86/x86-64 disassembler library. (Web)
• Degate - Modern and open-source cross-platform software for chips reverse engineering. (Web)
• An opinionated guide on how to reverse engineer software (2021) (HN)
• List of open source reverse engineering tools with a focus on binary analysis
• Binary Reversing Methodologies (2021)
• MUI: Visualizing symbolic execution with Manticore and Binary Ninja (2021)
• Falcon - Binary Analysis Framework in Rust.
• Finch - Symbolic Executor over Falcon IL. If it lifts to Falcon IL, it symbolically executes with Finch.
• Nintendo Switch reverse engineering attempts
• radare2-r2pipe - Access radare2 via pipe from any programming language.
• Awesome Reversing
• biodiff - Compare binary files using alignment algorithms.
• Reverse-engineering the waveform generator in a 1969 breadboard (2022) (HN)
• IDA2Obj - Tool to implement SBI (Static Binary Instrumentation).
• delsum - Reverse engineer's checksum toolbox.
• Advanced Binary Deobfuscation
• Ghidra Stack Strings - Hacky scripts to fixup stack strings in Ghidra's decompiler.
• decomp - Components of a decompilation pipeline.
• Ghidra Snippets - Python snippets for Ghidra's Program and Decompiler APIs.
• SLEIGH - Rust port of Ghidra's SLEIGH decompiler. Allows you to decompile or translate machine code for multiple architectures.
• 0x - Like xxd but colorful.
• angr - Platform-agnostic binary analysis framework. (Web)
• heh - Cross-platform terminal UI used for modifying file data in hex or ASCII.
• OFRAK - Unpack, modify, and repack binaries.