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Ghidra

Disassembler, decompiler, and analysis suite for compiled binaries

  • Security testing and OSINT
  • Developer tools
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What it is

Ghidra is a reverse engineering framework from the NSA that disassembles, decompiles, and graphs compiled programs across many processor architectures and executable formats. It runs as an interactive desktop application or headless for automated analysis, and can be extended with Java or Python scripts and plugins. Malware analysts, vulnerability researchers, and firmware hackers use it to understand what binaries actually do without source code.

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Stars
91,964 GitHub stars.
91,964

Forks
10,301
Commits
18,825
Contributors
413
Language
Java
License
Apache-2.0
Last commit
Oct 20, 2026
On GitHub since
March 2019
First release
June 2021
Platforms
macOS, Windows, Linux, CLI
Self-hostable
No
Alternative to
IDA Pro, Binary Ninja
Tags
  • static-analysis
  • reverse-engineering
  • debugging

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