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Reverse engineer anything

Tools, case studies and papers for taking apart binaries, games, apps, firmware, protocols and websites, each checked against its source.

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5,148 curated resources and 263 papers, each reviewed against its source. Plus 64 unreviewed discoveries from the scans.5,148 resources, 263 papers, 64 unreviewed

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Evidence class
  • C0full software reconstruction
  • C1partial scope or analysis entry
  • C2code & docs, no demo or download
  • C3notes only
  • ?Source unavailable or unreadable at review time

Showing 7 of 5,148

  • Binary · Tool:

    GhidraC1

    Open-source analysis suite for disassembly, decompilation, graphs and Java/Python automation across executable formats.

    Demo screenshot from the project's public documentation
    • Binary
    • Game
    • Firmware

    Reviewed NationalSecurityAgency/ghidra@864999d

  • Binary · Integration:

    Hex-Rays IDA MCPC2

    Official Hex-Rays MCP server for agent access to IDA databases, with headless operation and optional GUI integration.

    • Binary

    Reviewed HexRaysSA/ida-mcp@a038428

  • App · Tool:

    FridaC2

    Dynamic instrumentation toolkit for observing and scripting the behavior of live native and managed processes.

    • App
    • Game

    Reviewed frida/frida@e598d05

  • App · Tool:

    JADXC1

    Dex-to-Java decompiler with CLI/GUI navigation, resource decoding and cross-reference search for Android packages.

    Demo screenshot from the project's public documentation
    • App

    Reviewed skylot/jadx@c4c45fd

  • Game · Tool:

    Il2CppDumperC2

    Recover IL2CPP metadata and dummy assemblies, and generate helper scripts for native analysis tools; method code is not restored.

    • Game
    • App
    • Binary

    Reviewed Perfare/Il2CppDumper@101f3c6

  • Firmware · Tool:

    BinwalkC2

    Identifies embedded formats and optionally extracts their contents, with entropy analysis for firmware triage.

    • Firmware

    Reviewed ReFirmLabs/binwalk@e0a4434

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Each card links to its entry: description, requirements and the primary source it was reviewed against.

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WebsiteBench

Can AI agents rebuild websites through browser exploration?

Given a production-level website they can explore through a browser, agents must reverse-engineer a full-stack version that matches its appearance and behavior as closely as possible.

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