Awesome Reverse Engineering

Featured: REA — Agent-oriented reverse-engineering tools, from application behavior to native binaries. By the creators of awesome-reverse-engineering.

A curated starting point for understanding binaries, applications, firmware, file formats, and protocols.

Find a tool by the work you need to do. Each entry describes its purpose; commercial tools are marked commercial. This is an initial selection, open to additions and corrections.

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Your task	Start with
Learn assembly and reversing fundamentals	Learning
Identify an executable and its capabilities	File identification and triage
Read native code or step through it	Native analysis and Debuggers
Trace calls or instrument a running program	Dynamic instrumentation and tracing
Bypass anti-debugging, unpack or rebuild imports	Deobfuscation and anti-analysis
Examine a suspicious file, process, or memory image	Malware analysis
Inspect an APK, .NET assembly, or Java program	Android and managed code
Inspect an iOS app, macOS binary, or Apple firmware	iOS and macOS
Unpack a Python, Go, Flutter, or Hermes binary	Language runtimes and packagers
Understand browser behavior or an undocumented protocol	Web and protocols
Extract firmware or inspect a binary format	Firmware and hardware and File formats
Reconstruct game memory structures, assets, or bytecode	Game reverse engineering
Compare builds or audit binary diffs	Binary diffing and patch analysis
Solve constraints, explore states, or lift semantics	Symbolic execution and formal analysis and Instruction lifting and semantics
Accelerate an investigation with AI agents	AI-assisted analysis

Contents

• Learning
  • Books
• File identification and triage
• Native analysis
• Debuggers
• Dynamic instrumentation and tracing
• Deobfuscation and anti-analysis
• Malware analysis
• Android and managed code
• iOS and macOS
• Language runtimes and packagers
• Web and protocols
• Firmware and hardware
• File formats
• Game reverse engineering
• Binary diffing and patch analysis
• Symbolic execution and formal analysis

Learning

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