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ImHex | HexFiend | |
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46 | 10 | |
32,934 | 5,174 | |
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9.9 | 9.1 | |
4 days ago | about 1 month ago | |
C++ | Objective-C | |
GNU General Public License v3.0 only | BSD 2-clause "Simplified" License |
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ImHex
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Ask HN: What Underrated Open Source Project Deserves More Recognition?
ImHex
“A Hex Editor for Reverse Engineers, Programmers and people who value their retinas when working at 3 AM.”
I actually used it not too long ago to inspect why a mp4 file wasn’t valid. The pattern language that they have is quite nice and having sections of the hex highlighted and being able to see what structures they represent and what data was on those structures was very useful!
https://github.com/WerWolv/ImHex
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Spectrum Analyser, a Sinclair ZX Spectrum reverse engineering tool
Just one note: Please use UI scaling; it's near impossible to read on a 150% 4k screen (much less on 100%). Unfortunately, young eyes don't last forever.
The UI looks very much like ImHex (https://imhex.werwolv.net/) is this a coincidence, or is it the standard ImGui look and feel?
I wish ImHex had a decompiler for Z80 as well, but this is much better.
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Immediate Mode GUI Programming
I didn't use RemedyBG or Tracy, but I did try ImHex (https://github.com/WerWolv/ImHex) and it loaded 12% of the CPU because everything is being repainted 60 times per second. Heck, it even has an option to limit the FPS, which solves the CPU load a bit, but at the same time results in sluggish input because the event handling is tied to the drawing frequency.
So yes, the experience was not good, and I don't see what these tools would lose by using a proper GUI. I don't want every utility to drain my laptop battery like a decent video game.
ImGui is great if you already have a loop where everything is unconditionally redrawn every frame, but otherwise it's a really odd choice for an end-user application.
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The Hiew Hex Editor
I now use ImHex after looking for years for a good one. It has a pattern language to provide highlighting.
https://imhex.werwolv.net/
- Parsing an Undocumented File Format
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Dear ImGui: Bloat-free Graphical User interface with minimal dependencies
ImGui is brilliant. I can highly recommend this hex editor built using it: https://github.com/WerWolv/ImHex
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[Tutorial] How to manually change FOV (SoC, CS, & CoP)
Download a hex editor such as ImHex and open it. I'd recommend downloading the portable version of whatever hex editor you are using if it's offered. That way you don't have to install the program and can instantly delete it off your drive when you're done.
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What was your first open source contribution?
Probably https://github.com/WerWolv/ImHex/pull/509
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Visual IDE research feedback
"It seems from reading the post that the scope of the project is already way too large. This a decades-long project (for a single dev). But most (maybe all) of what's being offered already exists." My googling shows them existing as singular (or a few) features but not in a cohesive package; the "closest" one I could find is https://github.com/WerWolv/ImHex.
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Hexyl: A command-line hex viewer
If you want a true Hex Editor (or better, Hex IDE), I strongly suggest you to take a look ad ImHex [1].
[1]: https://github.com/WerWolv/ImHex
HexFiend
- Reverse-engineering an encrypted IoT protocol
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The Hiew Hex Editor
For macOS users, there's also native app Hex Fiend (open source) which also has a pattern language.
https://hexfiend.com
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GNU poke: The extensible editor for structured binary data
* HexFiend - a hex editor, but with "binary templates" feature : https://github.com/HexFiend/HexFiend
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Garbage display fix in FHD screens
First we need to download these three Applications: Hackintool, AWEDIDEditor and HexFiend
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What is the best hex-editor in 2022
For MacOS, I use HexFiend. It has TCL-based binary templates (fairly easy to write) and a CLI launcher (hexf)
https://hexfiend.com
https://github.com/HexFiend/HexFiend
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Patching an Embedded Synthesiser OS from 1996 with Ghidra
Shout out to Hex Fiend! My favorite feature is the template system[0]. It makes it much easier to figure out file formats for which you have no documentation. You write a little tcl code to describe the parts of the format you understand as you go.
[0] https://github.com/HexFiend/HexFiend/tree/master/templates
- Fq: Jq for Binary Formats
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Firefox's Optimized Zip Format: Reading Zip Files Quickly
I recently made a visualization template of ZIP file contents for HexFiend. The format is certainly wonky, and some writers (I’m looking at you, macOS) don’t get it quite right: https://github.com/HexFiend/HexFiend/blob/master/templates/A...
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Awesome Penetration Testing
Hex Fiend - Fast, open source, hex editor for macOS with support for viewing binary diffs.
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Tweak: An Efficient Hex Editor
The topo sort means we'll write [100, 200) first, so its source data is not overwritten.
Here is Hex Fiend's B+tree: https://github.com/HexFiend/HexFiend/blob/master/framework/s...
What are some alternatives?
ImHex-Patterns - Hex patterns, include patterns and magic files for the use with the ImHex Hex Editor
fq - jq for binary formats - tool, language and decoders for working with binary and text formats
catsight - Cross-platform process memory inspector
LOIC - Deprecated - Low Orbit Ion Cannon - An open source network stress tool, written in C#. Based on Praetox's LOIC project. USE ON YOUR OWN RISK. WITHOUT ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES. IF YOU GET V& IT IS YOUR FAULT.
x64dbg - An open-source user mode debugger for Windows. Optimized for reverse engineering and malware analysis.
Ciphey - ⚡ Automatically decrypt encryptions without knowing the key or cipher, decode encodings, and crack hashes ⚡
pycdc - C++ python bytecode disassembler and decompiler
libdeflate - Heavily optimized library for DEFLATE/zlib/gzip compression and decompression
extfstools - Tools for extracting files from ext2,3,4 filesystem images
Kaitai Struct - Kaitai Struct: declarative language to generate binary data parsers in C++ / C# / Go / Java / JavaScript / Lua / Nim / Perl / PHP / Python / Ruby
XMachOViewer - XMachOViewer is a Mach-O viewer for Windows, Linux and MacOS
json-logs - A tool to pretty-print JSON logs, like those from zap or logrus.