binwalk vs peda

binwalk

Firmware Analysis Tool [Moved to: https://github.com/ReFirmLabs/binwalk] (by devttys0)

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peda

PEDA - Python Exploit Development Assistance for GDB (by longld)

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binwalk		peda
	Project
1	Mentions	7
7,847	Stars	5,751
-	Growth	-
6.9	Activity	0.0
over 2 years ago	Latest Commit	2 days ago
Python	Language	Python
MIT License	License	GNU General Public License v3.0 or later

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binwalk

Posts with mentions or reviews of binwalk. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-11-13.

Awesome CTF : Top Learning Resource Labs
72 projects | /r/TutorialBoy | 13 Nov 2021

BinWalk - Analyze, reverse engineer, and extracting firmware images.

peda

Posts with mentions or reviews of peda. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-01-04.

Emulating an emulator inside itself. Meet Blink
3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 4 Jan 2023
Are there any cpu emulators that could help me learn i386 assembly?
5 projects | /r/asm | 5 Nov 2022
GDB Verbose Output
1 project | /r/gdb | 29 Aug 2022

Looks like they are using PEDA.
Hacked GDB Dashboard Puts It All on Display
2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 24 Mar 2022

There are a lot of these types of tools already in the reverse engineering community (in order of lowest chance of breaking when you throw really weird stuff at it):
GEF: https://gef.readthedocs.io/en/master/
PWNDBG: https://github.com/pwndbg/pwndbg
PEDA: https://github.com/longld/peda
They also come with a slew of different features to aid in RE/exploit dev, but many of them are also useful for debugging really weird issues.
Awesome CTF : Top Learning Resource Labs
72 projects | /r/TutorialBoy | 13 Nov 2021

PEDA - GDB plugin (only python2.7).
Awesome Penetration Testing
124 projects | dev.to | 6 Oct 2021

peda - Python Exploit Development Assistance for GDB.
GDB PEDA not being used by default?
1 project | /r/HowToHack | 9 May 2021

Did you follow the instructions? Step 2 adds PEDA to your ~/.gdbinit so it will/should load every time you open gdb. So if it doesn't work check your ~/.gdbinit file.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing binwalk and peda you can also consider the following projects:

Apktool - A tool for reverse engineering Android apk files

gef - GEF (GDB Enhanced Features) - a modern experience for GDB with advanced debugging capabilities for exploit devs & reverse engineers on Linux

CyberChef - The Cyber Swiss Army Knife - a web app for encryption, encoding, compression and data analysis

pwndbg - Exploit Development and Reverse Engineering with GDB Made Easy

volatility - An advanced memory forensics framework

pwntools - CTF framework and exploit development library

jadx - Dex to Java decompiler

dvcs-ripper - Rip web accessible (distributed) version control systems: SVN/GIT/HG...

objection - 📱 objection - runtime mobile exploration

Metasploit - Metasploit Framework