What is Radare2?
radare2 is an advanced, modular, portable reverse engineering framework. It provides a rich set of tools for analyzing binary files, disassembling code, debugging programs, analyzing malware, and more.
Some of the key features of radare2 include:
- Multi-architecture disassembler supporting many Instruction Set Architectures like x86, ARM, MIPS, PowerPC, and more
- Native debugger that works on Linux, macOS, Windows, Android, iOS and BSD
- Advanced code analysis utilizing data flow analysis techniques to identify functions, variables and more
- Graphical tools like the disassembler graph, the mini-graph, and the radial graph for visualizing code flows and call graphs
- Scriptable interface supporting multiple scripting languages like Python, JavaScript, and Lua for automation
- Supports analyzing and patching binaries without the source code across a wide variety of file formats like ELF, Mach-O, PE, and RAW
- Plugin architecture allowing the community to extend functionality and integrate other reverse engineering tools
- Free, open source software (GPLv3 license) with an active developer and user community
In summary, radare2 is one of the most advanced reverse engineering frameworks available. It provides a comprehensive toolset for analyzing and manipulating binary programs catering to reverse engineers, exploit developers, vulnerability researchers, and malware analysts.