The Best Binary Static Analysis Tools (Linters/Formatters)
We rank 26 Binary linters, code analyzers, formatters, and more. Find and compare tools like cargo-bloat, bloaty, BugProve, and more. Please rate and review tools that you've used. This helps others find the best tools for their projects.
23 Binary Tools
cargo-bloat
Find out what takes most of the space in your executable. supports ELF (Linux, BSD), Mach-O (macOS) and PE (Windows) binaries.
bloaty
Ever wondered what's making your binary big? Bloaty McBloatface will show you a size profile of the binary so you can understand what's taking up space inside. Bloaty performs a deep analysis of the binary. Using custom ELF, DWARF, and Mach-O parsers, Bloaty aims to accurately attribute every byte of the binary to the symbol or compileunit that produced it. It will even disassemble the binary looking for references to anonymous data. F
Dr. Memory
Dr. Memory is a memory monitoring tool capable of identifying memory-related programming errors (Github).
binbloom
Analyzes a raw binary firmware and determines features like endianness or the loading address. The tool is compatible with all architectures. Loading address: binbloom can parse a raw binary firmware and determine its loading address. Endianness: binbloom can use heuristics to determine the endianness of a firmware. UDS Database: binbloom can parse a raw binary firmware and check if it contains an array containing UDS command IDs.
rust-audit
Audit Rust binaries for known bugs or security vulnerabilities. This works by embedding data about the dependency tree (Cargo.lock) in JSON format into a dedicated linker section of the compiled executable.
VMware chap
chap analyzes un-instrumented ELF core files for leaks, memory growth, and corruption. It is sufficiently reliable that it can be used in automation to catch leaks before they are committed. As an interactive tool, it helps explain memory growth, can identify some forms of corruption, and supplements a debugger by giving the status of various memory locations.
llvm-propeller
Profile guided hot/cold function splitting to improve cache efficiency. An alternative to BOLT by Facebook
JEB Decompiler
Decompile and debug binary code. Break down and analyze document files. Android Dalvik, MIPS, ARM, Intel x86, Java, WebAssembly & Ethereum Decompilers.
Black Duck
Tool to analyze source code and binaries for reusable code, necessary licenses and potential security aspects.
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BugProve
BugProve is a firmware analysis platform featuring both static and dynamic analysis techniques to discover memory corruptions, command injections and other classes or common weaknesses in binary code. It also detects vulnerable dependencies, weak cryptographic parameters, misconfigurations, and more.
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Frequently Asked Questions
What are Binary tools?
A binary file is a computer file that contains only binary digits (bits). The term "binary" comes from the fact that these files contain data expressed in base-2 numeral system. Binary files are often contrasted with text files, which contain human-readable characters encoded using some character encoding scheme. Binary files are often used to store machine code, which is the basic instructions that a computer understands.
What are the best Binary static analysis tools and linters?
The most popular Binary tools ranked by user votes are: cargo-bloat, bloaty, BugProve, Manalyze, Twiggy.
Which Binary tools are free to use?
Tools with a free plan include BugProve. On top of that, there are also a number of open source like cargo-bloat, bloaty, Manalyze, Twiggy, Dr. Memory, angr, binbloom, BinSkim, cwe_checker, Ghidra.