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Technical (Development, Security, etc.) => General Programming => Topic started by: Ender on December 19, 2010, 02:15:25 pm

Title: Unix disassembler?
Post by: Ender on December 19, 2010, 02:15:25 pm

What disassembler would you recommend for Unix? (poke, poke, iago) Also, what hex editor?

I've been using gdb and objdump for disassembly and HexFiend (OS X) for hex editing, but I was wondering if there were better tools.

(I'd prefer free stuff, though I'm thinking maybe IDA is worth it...)

Title: Re: Unix disassembler?
Post by: iago on December 19, 2010, 03:13:41 pm

IDA is worth it x100. There's a free version, too, but it might be Windows-only. I do all my reverse engineering work in Windows, though.

Hex editing, go with whatever works. I usually vim + xxd on Linux, but that isn't pretty (I hardly ever need it, though). On Windows, I use xvi32 because it came up first in a google search and it works well.

I list most of the tools I use on my assembly tutorial wiki:
http://skullsecurity.org/wiki/index.php/Tools

Title: Re: Unix disassembler?
Post by: Ender on December 19, 2010, 05:12:56 pm

Nice to know, thanks iago.