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Redress

Command-line tool, built on the GoRE library, that recovers metadata from stripped binaries produced by the Go compiler. It reports the compiler version, build ID, GOROOT, main-package path and Go module information; lists project, standard-library and vendored packages; prints interfaces, structs and their methods as Go type declarations; and projects the source tree as packages, files and functions with estimated line ranges. Run inside radare2 through r2pipe, it adds function and type flags and analyzes main.init and main.main.

Targets
Binary
Category
Native analysis tools
Relationship
Foundation tool
Sources reviewed

Requirements & limits

  • Reviewed at commit fe38d96 (2024-10-12) on develop, the default branch. The stable master branch is 96 commits ahead, all automated "Update Gore version" commits: a daily workflow bumps the GoRE dependency whenever GoRE publishes a new release, then tags and builds a release. Latest release at review: v1.2.98 (2026-10-20), built against GoRE v0.14.7, while develop's go.mod still pins v0.11.5; the README is identical on both branches.
  • Release archives are amd64-only builds for Linux, macOS and Windows. Source builds need Go 1.21+ according to go.mod, with Make targets for each platform; the r2 subcommand is meant to run from radare2 as #!pipe redress r2.
  • Input is an executable built with the Go compiler. The README's examples use a macOS cryptominer sample first reported by Malwarebytes, which the repository does not include; it commits no test binaries. GoRE recovers functions from the pclntab and types from the typelink list, fully supporting Go 1.7 and later and only partially 1.5 and 1.6, and its compiler-version detection is a string search that the GoRE README says is not perfect.
  • Redress is AGPL-3.0 (LICENSE). GoRE is mostly BSD-licensed, but its AGPL features such as GOROOT extraction make any build without the gore_bsd tag AGPL. Output reconstructs symbols, types and a source layout, not Go source code, and the README notes that some packages cannot be classified. This review ran nothing and analyzed no binaries.

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Primary sources

  1. README.md GitHub · goretk/redress · Revision fe38d96
  2. go.mod GitHub · goretk/redress · Revision fe38d96
  3. Makefile GitHub · goretk/redress · Revision fe38d96
  4. LICENSE GitHub · goretk/redress · Revision fe38d96
  5. .github/workflows/gore.yml GitHub · goretk/redress · Revision fe38d96
  6. go.mod GitHub · goretk/redress · Revision 198e6dc
  7. https://github.com/goretk/redress/releases/tag/v1.2.98
  8. README.md GitHub · goretk/gore · Revision a49d396

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