flare-ida vs ret-sync

flare-ida

IDA Pro utilities from FLARE team (by mandiant)

ret-sync

ret-sync is a set of plugins that helps to synchronize a debugging session (WinDbg/GDB/LLDB/OllyDbg2/x64dbg) with IDA/Ghidra/Binary Ninja disassemblers. (by bootleg)

Reverse Engineering Debugger Disassembler software-analysis ida-pro ghidra ida-plugin binaryninja

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flare-ida		ret-sync
	Project
2	Mentions	3
2,103	Stars	1,883
1.2%	Growth	-
3.2	Activity	0.0
2 months ago	Latest Commit	2 months ago
Python	Language	C
Apache License 2.0	License	GNU General Public License v3.0 only

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flare-ida

Posts with mentions or reviews of flare-ida. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-11.

N00bs Night Malware RE Workshop with @c3rb3ru5d3d53c (OALABS)
5 projects | /r/Malware | 11 Jun 2023

Python3 Environment Basics For IDA Pro (Windows) https://www.patreon.com/posts/python3-basics-58467121 Hexcopy (save a click) https://github.com/OALabs/hexcopy-ida HashDB https://github.com/OALabs/hashdb-ida Flare-IDA https://github.com/mandiant/flare-ida Capa https://github.com/mandiant/capa Capa Rules https://github.com/mandiant/capa-rules BinDiff https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLBjcZe-C3I
Problems generating and applying FLIRT signatures in IDA for UE4 project
2 projects | /r/REGames | 14 Apr 2021

Now it's time to generate pattern files with idb2pat.py script on FLARE github. This one works up to version 7.3 including and doesn't work on 7.4+ because of changes in API calls of IDA. I updated it for IDA 7.5(just renamed a bunch of API calls to different names according to this article by hexrays for porting scripts to newer versions of IDA), but I run into the same problems on 7.2 with the original script.

ret-sync

Posts with mentions or reviews of ret-sync. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-02-08.

ret-sync+WinDbg+Ghidra - program unavailable
1 project | /r/ghidra | 18 Apr 2022

I am trying to connect Ghidra project to WinDbg Preview using ret-sync (https://github.com/bootleg/ret-sync). I think I have everything installed correctly, but in Ghidra console output for ret-sync extension I get:
I'm looking for a program-flow highlighting tool. Any ideas?
2 projects | /r/AskReverseEngineering | 8 Feb 2022

ret-sync: synchronize a debugger (WinDbg / GDB / LLDB / OllyDbg2 / x64dbg) with a disassembler (IDA / Ghidra / Binary Ninja) in which you can colorize the trace. See the bc command.
Announcing version 7.6 for IDA Freeware! Includes cloud based decompiler.
2 projects | /r/ReverseEngineering | 10 May 2021

What are some alternatives?

When comparing flare-ida and ret-sync you can also consider the following projects:

flare-fakenet-ng - FakeNet-NG - Next Generation Dynamic Network Analysis Tool

ghidra - Ghidra is a software reverse engineering (SRE) framework

tenet - A Trace Explorer for Reverse Engineers

REDRIVER2 - Driver 2 Playstation game reverse engineering effort

ghidra_scripts - Port of devttyS0's IDA plugins to the Ghidra plugin framework, new plugins as well.

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

lumen - A private Lumina server for IDA Pro

Ghidra-Cpp-Class-Analyzer - Ghidra C++ Class and Run Time Type Information Analyzer

flare-vm - A collection of software installations scripts for Windows systems that allows you to easily setup and maintain a reverse engineering environment on a VM.

capstone - Capstone disassembly/disassembler framework: Core (Arm, Arm64, BPF, EVM, M68K, M680X, MOS65xx, Mips, PPC, RISCV, Sparc, SystemZ, TMS320C64x, Web Assembly, X86, X86_64, XCore) + bindings. [Moved to: https://github.com/capstone-engine/capstone]

obfDetect - IDA plugin to pinpoint obfuscated code