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binary-parsing
- Reverse-engineering an encrypted IoT protocol
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GNU poke: The extensible editor for structured binary data
* binary-parsing - https://github.com/dloss/binary-parsing
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Ask HN: What software do you use to examine binary files?
There are a few hex/disk editors that support "templates" (but you need most times to create those yourself).
Here is a sort of "curated list" of related tools:
https://github.com/dloss/binary-parsing
The most complete/populated I know of is Kaitai:
http://kaitai.io/
http://formats.kaitai.io/
that you can use with Hiew with Kiewtai
https://github.com/taviso/kiewtai
If the question is slightly different, i.e. which bytes are used to identify a given file format, there is Trid:
https://mark0.net/soft-trid-e.html
Which has also a database of known headers/patterns.
- A list of tools for parsing binary data structures
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Fq: Jq for Binary Formats
Nice! Some other tools and parsers: https://github.com/dloss/binary-parsing
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?
fq - jq for binary formats - tool, language and decoders for working with binary and text formats
Kaitai Struct - Kaitai Struct: declarative language to generate binary data parsers in C++ / C# / Go / Java / JavaScript / Lua / Nim / Perl / PHP / Python / Ruby
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.
kaitai_struct_visualizer - Kaitai Struct: visualizer and hex viewer tool
Ciphey - ⚡ Automatically decrypt encryptions without knowing the key or cipher, decode encodings, and crack hashes ⚡
ImHex - 🔍 A Hex Editor for Reverse Engineers, Programmers and people who value their retinas when working at 3 AM.
libdeflate - Heavily optimized library for DEFLATE/zlib/gzip compression and decompression
json-toolkit - "the best opensource converter I've found across the Internet" -- dene14
unblob - Extract files from any kind of container formats
json-logs - A tool to pretty-print JSON logs, like those from zap or logrus.