rizin VS elfcat

Compare rizin vs elfcat and see what are their differences.

rizin

UNIX-like reverse engineering framework and command-line toolset. (by rizinorg)

elfcat

ELF visualizer. Generates HTML files from ELF binaries. (by ruslashev)
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rizin elfcat
44 3
2,376 915
3.6% -
9.8 0.0
7 days ago about 1 year ago
C Rust
GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0 only zlib License
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rizin

Posts with mentions or reviews of rizin. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-17.

elfcat

Posts with mentions or reviews of elfcat. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-06-22.
  • Elfcat: Visualize ELF Binaries
    5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 22 Jun 2021
    > I'm surprised this is written in Rust and doesn't use the object crate--did the author do this in part to learn how elf works?

    No. When I started the project I was expecting to just read data into the ELF structs, in style of C. (Un)fortunately, it's not possible to do safely, so I started looking into crates to do that, and was stumbling upon data deserialization ones, in particular, the first attempt was in nom. In hindsight, that wasn't particularly smart, and specific object-file-parsing ones would be better. I don't regret implementing reading manually, despite it looking pretty ugly, because attending to NIH syndrome is fun.

    > Speaking of visualizing virtual memory, one of the things that I haven't seen a nice prior tool for is breaking down the memory map of a process on a per-section basis

    That is planned. It's noted in readme, and in issue #3 I go over how it can look like[1].

    [1]: https://github.com/ruslashev/elfcat/issues/3#issuecomment-86...

What are some alternatives?

When comparing rizin and elfcat you can also consider the following projects:

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

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

cutter - Free and Open Source Reverse Engineering Platform powered by rizin

r2ghidra - Native Ghidra Decompiler for r2

Kaitai Struct - Kaitai Struct: declarative language to generate binary data parsers in C++ / C# / Go / Java / JavaScript / Lua / Nim / Perl / PHP / Python / Ruby

rz-ghidra - Deep ghidra decompiler and sleigh disassembler integration for rizin

efiSeek - Ghidra analyzer for UEFI firmware.

cgdb - Console front-end to the GNU debugger

unfuck - Python 2.7 bytecode d̶e̶o̶b̶f̶u̶s̶c̶a̶t̶o̶r unfucker

stage0 - A set of minimal dependency bootstrap binaries

live-bootstrap - Use of a Linux initramfs to fully automate the bootstrapping process

imnodes - A small, dependency-free node editor for dear imgui