It is a very difficult task for a human to notice subtle patterns in large amounts of binary data, however, us humans are very good at finding patterns in images. Statistical visualizations let you find the important bits in a sea of binary data - all at a glance.
Veles combines advanced hex explorer and data visualization features with an extensible framework for binary data analysis. Reverse engineering binaries? Exploring file system images? Steganography? Veles supports your work in all these fields.
With the number of different architectures, file formats and encodings you can't always expect to find the tool you need online. Veles uses client-server architecture, where each analyser can run in a separate process. All you need to do is get the data from the server, implement a Python function to parse it and return the results.
Available for Windows, OSX, and Linux.
Github: https://github.com/codilime/veles
In the AUR.
Analyse and edit binary files wherever you want, on any operating system, whether on a desktop or smartphone, and without installing any software. All you need is a modern web browser (Mozilla Firefox 79+, Google Chrome 66+, Opera 53+, Apple Safari 12.1+, Microsoft Edge 79+).
The complete file processing is done by your browser and HTML5 functionality. HexEd.it does not upload your data to the server.
HexEd.it has a small memory footprint - it does not keep your files in memory. This makes it possible to handle very large files even on low-RAM machines. HexEd.it has been tested on files as large as 150 GiB.
A Hex Editor for Reverse Engineers, Programmers and people who value their retinas when working at 3 AM. Full featured hex editor. Byte patching. Patch management. Copy and paste byte sequences. String and hex pattern highlighting. Pattern matching DSL. Huge file support. Can disassemble 16 different architectures' code and counting.
Has an official webapp (WASM) build if you want to self-host it. If you get errors about missing GPU support, enable WebGL in your browser configuration and force a reload.
fq is inspired by the well known jq tool and language and allows you to work with binary formats the same way you would using jq. In addition it can present data like a hex viewer, transform, slice and concatenate binary data. It also supports nested formats and has an interactive REPL with auto-completion.
It was originally designed to query, inspect and debug media codecs and containers like mp4, flac, mp3, jpeg. Since then it has been extended to support a variety of formats like executables, packet captures (including TCP reassembly) and serialization formats like JSON, YAML, XML, ASN1 BER, Avro, CBOR, protobuf.
In summary it aims to be jq, hexdump, dd and gdb for files combined into one.
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Upload a file to this site and it not only takes the file apart like a hex editor, but it also implements a number of different visualization techniques that translate the binary into visual pictures. The visual feedback is highly useful in the process of reverse engineering, because people's brains just weren't wired to read hex.