Visualizing Binary Files

EvanAnderson a minute ago | parent | next [-]

Christopher Domas gave a nice presentation[0] at DerbyCon 2012 about software that ended up becoming CantorDust[1]. I was pretty jazzed about after the presentation but didn't keep up with where it went.

[0] https://www.irongeek.com/i.php?page=videos/derbycon2/4-2-1-c...

[1] https://github.com/Battelle/cantordust

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1970-01-01 25 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

And binwalk if you want to find the juice within the file.

https://github.com/ReFirmLabs/binwalk/wiki/Supported-Signatu...

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nvalis an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I always liked the 3D visualization in Veles[0]. It's very intuitive to make out structured ASCII or other non-compressed sections in binary data.

[0] https://github.com/codilime/veles

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st_goliath 43 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

You might be interested in GNU poke[1][2], a hex-editor type program that can actually parse and visualize the structure of binary data (using a DSL for describing formats).

[1] https://jemarch.net/poke

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34986042

	▲	pdpi 29 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		I've been using ImHex[0] for this purpose, to pretty good effect. [0]: https://github.com/werwolv/imhex

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lbhdc a day ago | parent | prev [-]

https://github.com/wader/fq

I have really liked fq for binary visualization.