radare2
Tool and Usage
Project details
- Year of inception
- License
- LGPLv3
- Programming language
- C
- Author
- Sergi Alvarez
- Latest release
- 5.8.8
- Latest release date
Project health
Why this tool?
Radare2 is a popular framework to perform reverse engineering on many different file types. It can be used to analyze malware, firmware, or any other type of binary files. Besides reverse engineering, it can be used for forensics on filesystems and do data carving. Tasks can be scripted and support languages like JavaScript, Go, and Python. Even software exploitation is one of the functions it can be used in.
Background information
Radare stands for RAw DAta REcovery. It helps with performing analysis on files and images to retrieve useful artifacts. This can be used to better understand how malware works, recover lost data, or troubleshoot why software is crashing. In 2014, radare1 was replaced by radare2, which was a parallel work and a full rewrite. It then was released under the LGPLv3 license.
Usage and audience
radare2 is commonly used for digital forensics, reverse engineering, software exploitation, or troubleshooting. Target users for this tool are security professionals.
Features
- text user interface
Tool review and remarks
The review and analysis of this project resulted in the following remarks for this security tool:
Strengths
- + More than 500 contributors
- + More than 8000 GitHub stars
- + Many releases available
- + The source code of this software is available
Installation
Supported operating systems
Radare2 is known to work on Android, FreeBSD, Haiku, Linux, Microsoft Windows, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Solaris, iOS, and macOS.
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Categories
This tool is categorized as a Linux malware analysis tool, Linux reverse engineering tool, Linux static analysis tool, binary analysis tool, digital forensics tool, exploit development tool, and file system forensics tool.