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The IDA Pro days may be over - The NSA releases Ghidra
The NSA releases Ghidra, their reverse engineering tool, for free!
Ghidra is a reverse-engineering tool that’s developed, maintained and used by the NSA.
Reverse-engineering tools take code that’s already compiled (i.e executable code) and decompiles it in order to allow users to look at how the code actually works and identify potential weaknesses. Then, these weaknesses can be used to come up with bugs which in turn can be used to create exploits when combined with other vulnerabilities in the system.
A while ago, they promised they'd be releasing the tool for free at RSA Conference 2019 and now, that conference arrived and the tool, along with its source code, is publicly available for download!
To grab Ghidra for yourself, check out the link below and follow the installation instructions provided there. As it’s written in Java, you need to install JRE so make sure you have a working Java installation before you start blaming the NSA that they released non-working software!
Ghidra currently supports 64-bit versions of Windows, Linux and macOS and its hardware requirements are 4GB RAM and 1GB HDD space so it’ll run on most computers from the past decade.
Ghidra website (download link + links to more information):
https://ghidra-sre.org
Reverse-engineering tools take code that’s already compiled (i.e executable code) and decompiles it in order to allow users to look at how the code actually works and identify potential weaknesses. Then, these weaknesses can be used to come up with bugs which in turn can be used to create exploits when combined with other vulnerabilities in the system.
A while ago, they promised they'd be releasing the tool for free at RSA Conference 2019 and now, that conference arrived and the tool, along with its source code, is publicly available for download!
To grab Ghidra for yourself, check out the link below and follow the installation instructions provided there. As it’s written in Java, you need to install JRE so make sure you have a working Java installation before you start blaming the NSA that they released non-working software!
Ghidra currently supports 64-bit versions of Windows, Linux and macOS and its hardware requirements are 4GB RAM and 1GB HDD space so it’ll run on most computers from the past decade.
Ghidra website (download link + links to more information):
https://ghidra-sre.org
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