Reverse Engineering Tools

Here is a list of free (mostly as in beer) tools that can be used to aid Reverse Engineering. The list is divided into software that can be run under Win32 only, Win32/Wine and Linux/Unix.

Disassemblers

Win32/Wine

• IDA Pro

Win32 only

• OllyDbg

Linux/Unix

• objdump
• HT Editor
• Boomerang
• Rewind
• strings
• valgrind

Java

• Java De-obfuscation
• jad - Java Disassembler

Cross Platform

• Sang Cho's Win32 Disassembler
• Rasta Ring 0 Debugger (RR0D)

Network Analysis

• WireShark
• Internet Junkbuster

Other

• Hachoir: File parser framework written in Python
• Hex-Rays Decompiler: Decompiler plugin for IDA Pro 5.1
• listdlls: Windows program for listing dlls opened by another program. useful for finding which codec.dll is being used.
• Freeware video codec collection. Useful resource.