# Kaiju

> Kaiju is a Rust reverse-engineering framework with a headless CLI for binary loading and analysis. Its current crates parse selected ELF, PE and Mach-O metadata, extract strings, decode a limited x86-64 instruction subset and inspect saved network evidence.

- Type: Tool
- Targets: Binary
- Category: Native analysis tools
- Relationship: Foundation tool
- Sources reviewed: 2026-11-06
- Added to the catalog: 2026-11-06
- Original resource: <https://github.com/nightwarelabz/kaiju>
- Primary source: <https://github.com/nightwarelabz/kaiju/blob/86572f23fb852a1a5e816411f224b77b8ba262c0/docs/architecture.md>
- Catalog page: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/kaiju-re-framework/>
- Record JSON: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/kaiju-re-framework/record.json>
- Chinese version: [简体中文](https://awesomerea.org/zh/resources/kaiju-re-framework/index.md)

## Requirements & limits

- **Prerequisites:** Rust 1.76+ is specified by the workspace.
- **Limits:** ELF, PE, Mach-O and x86-64 support is limited to the documented parser and decoder subsets.
- **License:** Apache-2.0.

## Primary sources

1. <https://github.com/nightwarelabz/kaiju/blob/86572f23fb852a1a5e816411f224b77b8ba262c0/docs/architecture.md>
2. <https://github.com/nightwarelabz/kaiju/blob/86572f23fb852a1a5e816411f224b77b8ba262c0/Cargo.toml>

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