Looking for a good disassembler

[James Liggett]

Hi all,
Can someone recommend a good win32 disassembler, preferably one that
shows the contents of data segments and shows imports/exports?

Thanks a lot,
James Liggett

[Nick Burns]

OllyDbg is a good free binary disassembler/debugger

http://www.ollydbg.de/
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Ida Pro is a very nice disassembler/debugger -- (its commerical but it there 
is a free windows version)

http://www.datarescue.com/
http://www.datarescue.com/idabase/idadown.htm
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W32Dasm is a decent (kinda old) disassembler/debugger -- is it still 
commerical??

(look for a demo via google)
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REC is an impressive free deCompiler (better than a simple disassembler)
  its based off of boomarang http://boomerang.sourceforge.net/ (notice 
http://www.program-transformation.org/Transform/DecompilationPossible ("Pigs 
from Sausages?" hehe 
http://www.dur.ac.uk/martin.ward/martin/papers/migration-t.pdf))

http://www.backerstreet.com/rec/rec.htm

I hope you find this helpful -- I have some other links up my sleves but 
most are outdated and or commerical

Nick

[Felix Nawothnig]

Nick Burns wrote:
> REC is an impressive free deCompiler (better than a simple disassembler)
> its based off of boomarang

REC uses compiler dependend pattern matching which often fails miserably 
for modern code, it doesn't recognize a huge amount of >i386 opcodes 
(even some i386 opcodes) and I've seen way too many segfaults when 
dealing with large programs. I'm not sure if the situation has changed 
with REC 2.0 but as the author admits that the backend hasn't really 
changed I doubt it.

REC is also (debian) non-free (instead of boomerang, which is 
open-source and much more advanced from a architectural point of view 
but isn't really usable for larger binaries either).

You're much better off with some assembly knowledge and a good disassembler.

Felix

[Uwe Bonnes]

> > > > > "Felix" == Felix Nawothnig  writes:

Felix> Nick Burns wrote:
    >> REC is an impressive free deCompiler (better than a simple
    >> disassembler) its based off of boomarang

Felix> REC uses compiler dependend pattern matching which often fails
    Felix> miserably for modern code, it doesn't recognize a huge amount of
    Felix> >i386 opcodes (even some i386 opcodes) and I've seen way too many
    Felix> segfaults when dealing with large programs. I'm not sure if the
    Felix> situation has changed with REC 2.0 but as the author admits that
    Felix> the backend hasn't really changed I doubt it.

Felix> REC is also (debian) non-free (instead of boomerang, which is
    Felix> open-source and much more advanced from a architectural point of
    Felix> view but isn't really usable for larger binaries either).

Felix> You're much better off with some assembly knowledge and a good
    Felix> disassembler.

There is recstudio mentioned, but I don't see a download link. Does anybody
know about the (release|copyright) status of recstudio?

[Tom Wickline]

On 7/11/05, Uwe Bonnes  wrote:
> There is recstudio mentioned, but I don't see a download link. Does anybody
> know about the (release|copyright) status of recstudio?

http://www.backerstreet.com/rec/rec.htm

Tom

[Andreas Mohr]

Hi,

On Sun, Jul 10, 2005 at 02:31:57PM -0700, James Liggett wrote:
> Hi all,
> Can someone recommend a good win32 disassembler, preferably one that
> shows the contents of data segments and shows imports/exports?

You probably want IDA (Interactive DisAssembler).
With about $600 or so too expensive for my needs (I would have bought a cheaper version
if available), but there are also free versions available.

Andreas Mohr

[Anderson Lizardo]

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> On Sun, Jul 10, 2005 at 02:31:57PM -0700, James Liggett wrote:
> > Can someone recommend a good win32 disassembler, preferably one that
> > shows the contents of data segments and shows imports/exports?

I use the HT Editor (http://hte.sourceforge.net/). It's far less
featureful than IDA Pro, but it has a built-in analyzer and suports many
win32 executable formats. I use it in conjunction with winedbg to find
wine bugs.

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[Roger Young]

On Sun, 10 Jul 2005 14:31:57 -0700
James Liggett  wrote:
> Hi all,
> Can someone recommend a good win32 disassembler, preferably one that
> shows the contents of data segments and shows imports/exports?

Geprge Bush?
> Thanks a lot,
> James Liggett
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