Collaborative RCE Tool Library - Binary Diff Tools (including sub-categories)

Tool Updated: Radare

Thu, 04 Mar 2010 17:37:43 GMT

Listed in categories: .NET Disassemblers, Assemblers, Binary Diff Tools, Code Injection Tools, Debuggers, Disassemblers, Hex Editors, Java Disassembler Libraries, Linux Debuggers, Linux Disassemblers, Linux Tools, Memory Dumpers, Memory Patchers, Process Dumpers, Reverse Engineering Frameworks, Ring 3 Debuggers, String Finders, Symbol Retrievers, SysCall Monitoring Tools, Tracers

Most recent version:
1.5

Most recent release date:
December 13, 2009

Description:
<nowiki>The radare project aims to provide a complete unix-like toolchain for working with binary files. It currently provides a set of tools to work with x86, arm and java with some ones powerpc.

The core is a raw hexadecimal editor for commandline with scripting features and perl/python extensions that gets extended with IO plugins that hooks the open/read/write/close/system calls.

The debugger and disassembler has a code analysis module for x86, mips, arm and java. This way it's possible to draw graphs using Cairo on a GTK window or store the flow execution of a program on a log file and use the information to diff't against another trace or binary.

The toolchain provides assemblers and disasemblers for x86, arm, mips (Loongson2F), sparc, CSR, m68k, powerpc, msil and java.

The disassembler has been enhaced to handle inline comments, code block detections and flag references (data pointers or so).

The debugger is mainly developed on linux and {Net

Tool Updated: WinHex

Thu, 04 Mar 2010 17:22:57 GMT

Listed in categories: Binary Diff Tools, Hex Editors, Memory Dumpers, Memory Patchers, Memory Search Tools

Most recent version:
15.6

Most recent release date:
March 1, 2010

Description:
WinHex is in its core a universal hexadecimal editor, particularly helpful in the realm of computer forensics, data recovery, low-level data processing, and IT security. An advanced tool for everyday and emergency use: inspect and edit all kinds of files, recover deleted files or lost data from hard drives with corrupt file systems or from digital camera cards. Features include (depending on the license type):

* Disk editor for hard disks, floppy disks, CD-ROM & DVD, ZIP, Smart Media, Compact Flash, ...
* Native support for FAT, NTFS, Ext2/3, ReiserFS, Reiser4, UFS, CDFS, UDF
* Built-in interpretation of RAID systems and dynamic disks
* Various data recovery techniques
* RAM editor, providing access to physical RAM and other processes' virtual memory
* Data interpreter, knowing 20 data types
* Editing data structures using templates (e.g. to repair partition table/boot sector)
* Concatenating and splitting files, unifying and dividing odd and even bytes/words
* Analyzing and comparing files
* Particularly flexible search and replace functions
* Disk cloning (under DOS with X-Ways Replica)
* Drive images & backups (optionally compressed or split into 650 MB archives)
* Programming interface (API) and scripting
* 256-bit AES encryption, checksums, CRC32, hashes (MD5, SHA-1, ...)
* Erase (wipe) confidential files securely, hard drive cleansing to protect your privacy
* Import all clipboard formats, incl. ASCII hex values
* Convert between binary, hex ASCII, Intel Hex, and Motorola S
* Character sets: ANSI ASCII, IBM ASCII, EBCDIC, (Unicode)
* Instant window switching. Printing. Random-number generator.
* Supports files >4 GB. Very fast. Easy to use. Extensive online help.

Tool Updated: Beyond Compare

Mon, 28 Apr 2008 10:59:04 GMT

Listed in categories: Binary Diff Tools, File System Diff Tools, Image Diff Tools, Text Diff Tools

Most recent version:
2.5.1

Most recent release date:
August 30, 2007

Description:
A very good text/code diffing tool. Also a good binary diffing tool if using the plugin for this from the author's website.

Tool Updated: Araxis Merge

Tue, 01 Jan 2008 19:34:20 GMT

Listed in categories: Binary Diff Tools, Image Diff Tools, Text Diff Tools

Most recent version:

Most recent release date:
December 6, 2007

Description:
Merge is the visual file comparison (diff), merging and folder synchronization application from Araxis. Use it to compare and merge source code, web pages and other text files with native application performance. Compare images and binary files. Synchronize folders. Perform code reviews and audits. Work with source hierarchies containing thousands of files.

Features include:

- 3 way diff comparison (compare 3 files or data sets at the same time)
- ASCII, MBCS, UNICODE
- Binary and image (jpg, gif etc) comparison (very cool, can easily detect single changed pixels, e.g. in cases of steganography etc!)

Very powerful tool, useful for quickly diff'ing a directory structure of files to check for changes.

Tool Added: ExamDiff Pro

Wed, 26 Dec 2007 19:35:44 GMT

Listed in categories: Binary Diff Tools, Text Diff Tools

Most recent version:
3.5.1.5

Most recent release date:
May 26, 2007

Description:
From the product's website:
ExamDiff Pro is a powerful yet intuitive and easy to use visual file and directory comparison tool for Windows 98/Me/NT/2000/XP/2003/Vista. It features unique functionality that distinguishes ExamDiff Pro from other comparison programs. If you've been frustrated with other comparison utilities, you will find that ExamDiff Pro offers a much more efficient and user-friendly way to compare files and folders.