LIEF VS libear

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LIEF

LIEF - Library to Instrument Executable Formats (by lief-project)
Reverse Engineering malware-analysis binary-analysis Parser modification executable-formats elf macho pe lief Parsing SDK Python Android Dex oat Art vdex
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libear

A C++11 library to render ADM content according to Recommendation ITU-R BS.2127 (by ebu)
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LIEF libear
4 2
4,145 24
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9.3 6.8
2 days ago 20 days ago
C++ C++
Apache License 2.0 Apache License 2.0
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LIEF

Posts with mentions or reviews of LIEF. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-07-26.
  • What's the Most Portable Way to Include Binary Blobs in an Executable?
    5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 26 Jul 2022
    My team is working on this problem in the context of creating Node.js single-executable applications. While the naive approach of just appending data at the end of the binary works, it is not friendly with code-signature in macOS and Windows given that signing operates on PE and Mach-O sections.

    We have recently open-sourced a small tool called Postject (https://github.com/postmanlabs/postject), which is able to inject arbitrary data as proper ELF/Mach-O/PE sections for all major operating systems (with AIX support coming). The tool also provides C/C++ cross-platform headers for easily traversing the final binary and introspect whether the segment is present or not.

    The tool is based on the LIEF (https://github.com/lief-project/LIEF) project.

    At Postman, we are making use of this on our custom Node.js single-executable applications and soon on our custom Electron.js builds too.

  • Pefile python module features
    2 projects | /r/Malware | 17 Mar 2022
    https://github.com/lief-project/LIEF https://lief-project.github.io/doc/latest/api/python/index.html
  • Collection of tools for executable packing detection
    6 projects | /r/Malware | 15 Jan 2022
    Bintropy: Entropy-based packing detection featuring multiple modes (whole binary, per section or segment). Based on the awesome LIEF library, therefore supports ELF, PE, Mach-O.
  • rabin2 for scraping ELF to JSON
    2 projects | /r/ELFLinking | 16 Oct 2021
    I've been looking at LIEF toolkit for similar purposes (https://github.com/lief-project/LIEF). It's a python framework for cross platform binary analysis. I'm curious, does rabin2 support dll format?

libear

Posts with mentions or reviews of libear. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-12-20.
  • Object-Based Audio Renderer
    2 projects | /r/DSP | 20 Dec 2022
    The BBC did a lot of work in this area (disclaimer: I worked for them), including creating an open source renderer: https://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/blog/2019-08-libear-ebu-audio-renderer-next-generation-open-source. The code is here: https://github.com/ebu/libear. Start at https://github.com/ebu/libear/blob/master/examples/objects_gains.cpp and work back through the code.
  • What's the Most Portable Way to Include Binary Blobs in an Executable?
    5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 26 Jul 2022
    My colleague wrote this solution for C++ and cmake:

    https://github.com/ebu/libear/commit/40a4000296190c3f91eba79...

    This is a cmake function which generates C++ files using no external tools. It's probably not very fast, but if you don't need to handle big files and are already using cmake this is easy to integrate, adds no dependencies and works on all platforms.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing LIEF and libear you can also consider the following projects:

dll-proxy-generator - Creates a proxy dll which sits between the game and original dll

ltools - LTools are a set of free, open-source productivity command-line tools (drawing inspiration from Unix commands and philosophy).

radare2 - UNIX-like reverse engineering framework and command-line toolset

shiv - shiv is a command line utility for building fully self contained Python zipapps as outlined in PEP 441, but with all their dependencies included.

tree-sitter-html - HTML grammar for Tree-sitter

postject - Easily inject arbitrary read-only resources into executable formats (Mach-O, PE, ELF) and use it at runtime.

pe - A :zap: lightweight Go package to parse, analyze and extract metadata from Portable Executable (PE) binaries. Designed for malware analysis tasks and robust against PE malformations.

libadm - Audio Definition Model (ITU-R BS.2076) handling library

vivaldi_modding - Custom modifications for Vivaldi web browser.

bintropy - Analysis tool for estimating the likelihood that a binary contains compressed or encrypted bytes

goblin - An impish, cross-platform binary parsing crate, written in Rust

the-backdoor-factory - Patch PE, ELF, Mach-O binaries with shellcode new version in development, available only to sponsors

LIEF vs dll-proxy-generator libear vs ltools LIEF vs radare2 libear vs shiv LIEF vs tree-sitter-html libear vs postject LIEF vs pe libear vs libadm LIEF vs vivaldi_modding LIEF vs bintropy LIEF vs goblin LIEF vs the-backdoor-factory