Questions tagged [tools]
Use this tag for questions regarding recommendations of frameworks, libraries, programs or hardware tools used during the process of reverse engineering. Please avoid using this tag for tool-specific questions that do not have their own tag.
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What scripts or plugins would you like to see for Ghidra? [closed]
For those of you using Ghidra, are there any scripts or plugins you wish existed to make certain tasks easier or fill a specific gap? Whether it’s a small utility or a more advanced feature, I’d love ...
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Is a macOS System Call Tracing & Visualization Tool Useful?
I’m a beginner in reverse engineering and thinking of building a tool to trace and visualize system calls on macOS. The idea is to make something simpler than DTrace or Instruments, with an intuitive ...
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getReferencesTo returning None in Ghidra API (GhidraBridge)
I'm having a problem with the Ghidra API's getReferencesTo method in a Python script. When I try to retrieve references to a specific address in the binary, the method systematically returns None and ...
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Asking for Reverse Engineering Tool Ideas
I'm currently studying cybersecurity and IoT and I'm interested in working on a development project in the realm of reverse engineering. My level is somewhere between beginner and intermediate, and I'...
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Tracing all functions in executable conditionally, to find function of interest
I would like to alter the behavior of some executable (in my case, a videogame). One way of doing this is to hook function calls (e.g., a function like Player::ReceiveDamage) and adjust parameters/...
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Need help understanding why Netflix prevents me from downloading with VPN
When using Netflix via the Windows desktop app with a VPN, streaming movies works fine but downloading does not. The download gets automatically paused, and after a minute it shows error code DL1-...
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What are the substantive differences between radare2 and rizin?
Rizin was forked from Radare2 several years ago, mainly due to human factors. At the time, there weren't any important differences in features between the two.
I understand that Rizin has rewritten ...
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UPX Unpacking tool
Firstly, thank you for your answer.
What is the best unpacking tool to use to unpack - UPX 0.89.6 - 1.02 / 1.05 - 1.24 ->[Overlay] could you please provide a link so i can obtain as such.
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I want to learn how to program by orienting myself to the task of reverse engineering
I have to learn programming from scratch and I want to orient my learning in order to be able to reverse engineer to break obfuscators. It would be helpful if you could recommend me what languages, ...
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Is there a way to run arbitrary code on a vtech Nitro Vision?
Note: If this the wrong place to ask the question, please redirect me to the appropriate stack exchange and/or subreddit. I just figured reverse engineering is my best bet since it's kinda what I'm ...
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Is there a Capturebat alternative on windows 10 for file capture?
I've been looking for a capturebat alternative that will function on Windows 10 and 64 bit.
I'm not interested in capturbat's network capabilities; rather, I'm interested in its capacity to capture ...
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Can I get a valid source code from this assembly?
I've used the IDA 8.0 Demo to retrieve (from a .DLL) the assembly code, such as:
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pxor xmm0, xmm0
ucomiss xmm0, xmm1
ja short loc_67F31600
movss xmm2, cs:...
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Getting helpful information on classes in Ghidra?
I'm an intern at an engineering firm that's being contracted to decompile some ELF32 files on an ARM device compiled with GCC. Currently, we're using Ghidra, but no one at the firm (including me) ...
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how to decrypt zte zxhn h108n V2.5.5_VDFT13 config.bin?
I need the root password from my router. I need to change my snr because my provider had lock it at a high value. I try to decrypt my config.bin file but no result. I try first with zte-config-utility
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Binary diff + patching across versions
What are the current options for binary patching which works across different versions of the binary?
E.g. we created a binary patch for a specific version of a binary and want to apply that patch to ...
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