***Description:*** Capa detects capabilities in executable files. Run this tool against a PE, ELF, or shellcode file and it tells you what it thinks the program can do. For example, it might suggest that the file is a backdoor, is capable of installing services, or relies on HTTP to communicate. <br/>
***Description:*** Detect It Easy, or abbreviated "DIE" is a program for determining types of files. DIE-Engine is a Graphical User Interface for DIE. <br/>
***Developer:*** ASL - http://www.exeinfo.byethost18.com <br/>
***Description:*** ExEinfo PE detects packers, obfuscators, compilers & protectors in binary files. <br/>
### PEStudio
***Web:*** https://www.winitor.com/download <br/>
***Developer:*** winitor <br/>
***Description:*** The goal of pestudio is to spot artifacts of executable files in order to ease and accelerate Malware Initial Assessment. The tool is used by Computer Emergency Response Teams (CERT), Security Operations Centers (SOC) and Digital-Forensic Labs worldwide. <br/>
***Description:*** This tool shows information about build tools, libraries and protection of APK/DEX files. Has heuristic capabilities, and runs in Win/MacOS/Linux. <br/>
***Description:*** IDR is a decompiler of executable files (EXE) and dynamic libraries (DLL), written in Delphi and executed in Windows32 environment, with the final aim of being capable to restore the most part of initial Delphi source codes from the compiled file. <br/>
***Developer:*** the Java Decompiler dev team <br/>
***Description:*** This is a standalone graphical utility that displays Java sources from CLASS files. <br/>
### [JAVA] Recaf
***Web:*** https://github.com/Col-E/Recaf <br/>
***Developer:*** Matt Coley (Col-E) <br/>
***Description:*** An easy to use modern Java bytecode editor that abstracts away the complexities of Java programs. Recaf abstracts away constant pool, stack frames, wide instructions, and more. <br/>
***Description:*** Python script to extract the contents of a PyInstaller generated Windows executable file. The contents of the pyz file (usually pyc files) present inside the executable are also extracted. The header of the pyc files are automatically fixed so that a Python bytecode decompiler will recognize it. <br/>
***Description:*** Cutter is a free and open-source reverse engineering platform powered by Rizin (fork of the radare2 reverse engineering framework). It aims at being an advanced and customizable reverse engineering platform while keeping the user experience in mind. Cutter is created by reverse engineers for reverse engineers. <br/>
### Ghidra
***Web:*** https://ghidra-sre.org/ <br/>
***Developer:*** NSA <br/>
***Description:*** Ghidra is a software reverse engineering (SRE) framework created and maintained by the National Security Agency Research Directorate. This framework includes a suite of full-featured, high-end software analysis tools that enable users to analyze compiled code on a variety of platforms. <br/>
### x64dbg
***Web:*** www.x64dbg.com <br/>
***Developer:*** Duncan Ogilvie (mrexodia) <br/>
***Description:*** An open-source binary debugger for Windows, aimed at malware analysis and reverse engineering of executables you do not have the source code for. There are many features available and a comprehensive plugin system to add your own. <br/>
## HEX Editor
### HxD
***Web:*** https://mh-nexus.de/en/hxd <br/>
***Developer:*** Maël Hörz <br/>
***Description:*** HxD is a carefully designed and fast hex editor which, additionally to raw disk editing and modifying of main memory (RAM), handles files of any size.
The easy to use interface offers features such as searching and replacing, exporting, checksums/digests, insertion of byte patterns, a file shredder, concatenation or splitting of files, statistics and much more. <br/>
### ImHex
***Web:*** https://github.com/WerWolv/ImHex <br/>
***Developer:*** WerWolv <br/>
***Description:*** ImHex is a Hex Editor, a tool to display, decode and analyze binary data to reverse engineer their format, extract informations or patch values in them.
What makes ImHex special is that it has many advanced features that can often only be found in paid applications. Such features are a completely custom binary template and pattern language to decode and highlight structures in the data, a graphical node-based data processor to pre-process values before they're displayed, a disassembler, diffing support, bookmarks and much much more. <br/>
***Description:*** This fine tool lets you monitor and control API calls made by applications and services. Its a powerful tool for seeing how applications and services work or for tracking down problems that you have in your own applications. <br/>
***Description:*** This utility, which has the most comprehensive knowledge of auto-starting locations of any startup monitor, shows you what programs are configured to run during system bootup or login, and when you start various built-in Windows applications like Internet Explorer, Explorer and media players. <br/>
***Description:*** CurrPorts is network monitoring software that displays the list of all currently opened TCP/IP and UDP ports on your local computer. For each port in the list, information about the process that opened the port is also displayed, including the process name, full path of the process, version information of the process (product name, file description, and so on), the time that the process was created, and the user that created it. <br/>
***Description:*** MultiMon is an advanced multifunctional system monitoring tool for Windows which displays detailed output of a wide range of activities in real-time. The system monitor displays process and thread creation as well as binary image loading. The file system monitor displays activity from the perspective of the file system. The registry monitor shows registry activity in real time. <br/>
***Description:*** PE-sieve is a tool that helps to detect malware running on the system, as well as to collect the potentially malicious material for further analysis. Recognizes and dumps variety of implants within the scanned process: replaced/injected PEs, shellcodes, hooks, and other in-memory patches. Detects inline hooks, Process Hollowing, Process Doppelgänging, Reflective DLL Injection, etc. <br/>
***Description:*** Portmon is a utility that monitors and displays all serial and parallel port activity on a system. It has advanced filtering and search capabilities that make it a powerful tool for exploring the way Windows works, seeing how applications use ports, or tracking down problems in system or application configurations. <br/>
***Description:*** Ever wondered which program has a particular file or directory open? Now you can find out. Process Explorer shows you information about which handles and DLLs processes have opened or loaded. <br/>
***Description:*** Process Monitor is an advanced monitoring tool for Windows that shows real-time file system, Registry and process/thread activity. It combines the features of two legacy Sysinternals utilities, Filemon and Regmon, and adds an extensive list of enhancements. <br/>
***Description:*** TCPView is a Windows program that will show you detailed listings of all TCP and UDP endpoints on your system, including the local and remote addresses and state of TCP connections. <br/>
***Description:*** The FLARE Obfuscated String Solver (FLOSS, formerly FireEye Labs Obfuscated String Solver) uses advanced static analysis techniques to automatically deobfuscate strings from malware binaries. You can use it just like strings.exe to enhance basic static analysis of unknown binaries. <br/>
***Description:*** A fast and easy-to-use calculator that allows to compute message digests, checksums and HMACs for files, as well as for text and hex strings. It offers a choice of 13 of the most popular hash and checksum algorithms for calculations. <br/>
***Description:*** HashMyFiles is small utility that allows you to calculate the MD5 and SHA1 hashes of one or more files in your system. You can easily copy the MD5/SHA1 hashes list into the clipboard, or save them into text/html/xml file. <br/>
***Description:*** Process Dump is a Windows reverse-engineering tool to dump malware memory components back to disk for analysis. It uses an aggressive import reconstruction approach to make analysis easier, and supports 32 and 64 bit modules. <br/>
***Description:*** RawCap is a free command line network sniffer for Windows that uses raw sockets. Can sniff most interface types, including WiFi, WWAN (Mobile Broadband) and PPP interfaces. <br/>
***Description:*** Resource Hacker is a resource editor for 32bit and 64bit Windows applications. It's both a resource compiler aand a decompiler, enabling viewing and editing resources in executables. <br/>
***Description:*** Threadtear is a multifunctional deobfuscation tool for java. Android application support is coming soon (Currently working on a dalvik to java converter). Suitable for easier code analysis without worrying too much about obfuscation. <br/>
***Description:*** Simple tool to download debugging symbols from Microsoft, Google, Mozilla and Citrix symbol servers for reverse engineers compatible with Windows 8.1, 10 and 11. <br/>
***Description:*** This powerful Microsoft Windows application is specifically designed to assist developers and malware analysts with the analysis and manipulation of exported functions in Portable Executable (PE) files, particularly DLLs. With DLest, you can easily enumerate exported functions using a variety of methods, including drag and drop, opening a folder, or recursively scanning a folder with regular expression filtering to only include PE files with specific export function names. <br/>
***Description:*** Another patch generator. Requires .NET Runtime 2.0 for the GUI. <br/>
## UnPacking
### De4Dot
***Web:*** https://github.com/de4dot/de4dot <br/>
***Developer:*** de4dot <br/>
***Description:*** de4dot is an open source .NET deobfuscator and unpacker written in C#. It will try its best to restore a packed and obfuscated assembly to almost the original assembly.
Most of the obfuscation can be completely restored (eg. string encryption), but symbol renaming is impossible to restore since the original names aren't (usually) part of the obfuscated assembly.<br/>
***Description:*** Universal Extractor 2 is a tool designed to extract files from any type of extractable file. <br/>
Unlike most archiving programs, UniExtract is not limited to **standard archives** such as `.zip` and `.rar`. It can also deal with **application installers**, **disk images** and even **game archives** and other **multimedia files**. An overview of supported file types can be found [here](https://github.com/Bioruebe/UniExtract2/blob/master/docs/FORMATS.md)
### XVolkolak
***Web:*** https://horsicq.github.io/ <br/>
***Developer:*** Hors <br/>
***Description:*** XVolkolak is an unpacker emulator. Unlike programs of this type, it does not use DebugAPI and other features of the operating system. Everything is emulated. You can safely unpack malware for further investigation without the risk of damaging the system.
All machine instructions are not executed on a real processor, so unpacking occurs regardless of the processor type and the operating system. <br/>
