Open Source Python Reverse Engineering Tools for Mac

Dynamic instrumentation toolkit for developers, reverse-engineers, and security researchers. Inject your own scripts into black box processes. Hook any function, spy on crypto APIs or trace private application code, no source code needed. Edit, hit save, and instantly see the results. All without compilation steps or program restarts. Works on Windows, macOS, GNU/Linux, iOS, Android, and QNX. Install the Node.js bindings from npm, grab a Python package from PyPI, or use Frida through its Swift bindings, .NET bindings, Qt/Qml bindings, or C API. Frida is and will always be free software (free as in freedom). We want to empower the next generation of developer tools, and help other free software developers achieve interoperability through reverse engineering. We are proud that NowSecure is using Frida to do fast, deep analysis of mobile apps at scale. Frida has a comprehensive test-suite and has gone through years of rigorous testing across a broad range of use-cases.

HackingTool by Z4nzu is a large collection (“all-in-one”) of tools and scripts for penetration testing / hacking / OSINT etc. It bundles many utilities (port scanners, payload injectors, web attack tools, phishing tools, wireless attack tools, reverse engineering, etc.) into a menu interface. Includes many individual tools, often wrappers or aggregations of existing well-known tools (e.g. port scanners, web attack tools, steganography, hash cracking etc.). A menu interface offering categories: reconnaissance, payload creation, wireless attacks, reverse engineering, exploit frameworks, etc. Users can pick which tool to run. It is intended more for “ethical / lab / educational” hacking contexts rather than production or stealth scenarios. It depends a lot on external tools, grants, and root privileges in many cases.

FISSURE is an open-source radio frequency analysis and signal intelligence framework built to support software-defined radio research, wireless security experimentation, and protocol reverse engineering. The project brings together tools for capturing, inspecting, decoding, replaying, and analyzing RF signals across a wide range of wireless technologies. It is designed as a practical environment for researchers and operators who need to move from raw spectrum observation to structured investigation without stitching together too many separate utilities by hand. The platform supports workflows related to signal discovery, demodulation, packet inspection, fuzzing, and attack simulation, making it useful for both defensive research and controlled lab testing. Its architecture is oriented toward extensibility, so users can integrate additional hardware, signal-processing components, and protocol-specific modules depending on their needs.

The Miasm intermediate representation is used for multiple task: emulation through its jitter engine, symbolic execution, DSE, program analysis, but the intermediate representation can be a bit hard to read. We will present in this article new tricks Miasm has learned in 2018. Among them, the SSA/Out-of-SSA transformation, expression propagation and high-level operators can be joined to “lift” Miasm IR to a more human-readable language. We use graphviz to illustrate some graphs. Its layout does not always totally conform with a reverse engineering “ideal view”, so please be tolerant of those odd graphs. Miasm is not the first tool to implement this feature. But, well, as the tool already had everything needed to implement DSE, it was just a matter of time before these features landed in the main branch.