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radare2

brew install radare2 v6.1.6 LGPL-3.0-only

Reverse engineering framework and disassembler for analyzing binaries across architectures.

Why you might care

Radare2 is a comprehensive, scriptable toolkit for binary analysis, debugging, and reverse engineering—useful for security researchers, malware analysts, and curious developers. It supports multiple architectures and file formats in a single tool, with both CLI and interactive modes (via `r2` command). More feature-complete and customizable than simpler disassemblers, though steeper learning curve than IDA or Ghidra.

Categories

debugger disassembler security scanner

Alternatives

Ghidra IDA Pro objdump Frida angr
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Runtime dependencies

pkgconf

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