Visualizing Binary Files

20 points
1/21/1970
a day ago
by zdw

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xvilka

Rizin[1][2] has the byte-level highlight (enter visual mode with `V` key then rotate through modes using `p` or `P`)[3], and there is an issue[4] for Cutter to add binary visualization as a plugin, if anyone is up to the task.

[1] https://rizin.re

[2] https://github.com/rizinorg/rizin

[3] https://book.rizin.re/src/visual_mode/intro.html

[4] https://github.com/rizinorg/cutter-plugins/issues/3

28 minutes ago

EvanAnderson

Christopher Domas gave a nice presentation[0] at DerbyCon 2012 about software that ended up becoming CantorDust[1]. I was pretty jazzed about after the presentation but didn't keep up with where it went.

[0] https://www.irongeek.com/i.php?page=videos/derbycon2/4-2-1-c...

[1] https://github.com/Battelle/cantordust

36 minutes ago

Piraty

arcan [1] has senseye [2][3].

[1] https://arcan-fe.com

[2] youtu.be/WBsv9IJpkDw

[3] youtu.be/ALA1W-BL8fA

8 minutes ago

1970-01-01

And binwalk if you want to find the juice within the file.

https://github.com/ReFirmLabs/binwalk/wiki/Supported-Signatu...

an hour ago

nvalis

I always liked the 3D visualization in Veles[0]. It's very intuitive to make out structured ASCII or other non-compressed sections in binary data.

[0] https://github.com/codilime/veles

2 hours ago

st_goliath

You might be interested in GNU poke[1][2], a hex-editor type program that can actually parse and visualize the structure of binary data (using a DSL for describing formats).

[1] https://jemarch.net/poke

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34986042

an hour ago

pdpi

I've been using ImHex[0] for this purpose, to pretty good effect.

[0]: https://github.com/werwolv/imhex

an hour ago

lbhdc

https://github.com/wader/fq

I have really liked fq for binary visualization.

a day ago