NationalSecurityAgency/ghidra
Ghidra is a software reverse engineering (SRE) framework
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Where it stands
Rank, growth pace and release cadence relative to everything GStars tracks.
Ranks #3 among Backend repositories ranked this week, and #1 over the last 30 days; #35 of 170 repositories with measured growth this week (top 21%).
This week's +2,012 stars is below its 30-day pace of about +3,773 per week.
3 releases in the last 90 days, the latest 17 days ago, with 418 contributors on GitHub.
Peaked at #10 in the weekly ranking the week of Oct 4, its best in the past year.
Use Cases & Benefits
- Provides a comprehensive software reverse engineering framework with disassembly, decompilation, and scripting capabilities across multiple platforms.
- Enables scalable, customizable, and extensible analysis of compiled code with support for numerous processor instruction sets and executable formats.
- Use for analyzing malware and understanding vulnerabilities in networked systems to enhance cybersecurity defenses.
- Use for developing custom reverse engineering scripts and extensions using Java or Python to automate complex analysis tasks.
- Use for collaborative software reverse engineering projects requiring both interactive and automated code analysis workflows.
Should you depend on it?
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License
Apache 2.0
Permissive: commercial use, modification and redistribution are allowed with attribution; includes an explicit patent grant from contributors.
Community files
- README: present
- Contributing guide: present
- Code of conduct: present
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From the README
Ghidra is a software reverse engineering (SRE) framework created and maintained by the National Security Agency Research Directorate. This framework includes a suite of full-featured, high-end software analysis tools that enable users to analyze compiled code on a variety of platforms including Windows, macOS, and Linux. Capabilities include disassembly, assembly, decompilation, graphing, and scripting, along with hundreds of other features. Ghidra supports a wide variety of processor instruction sets and executable formats and can be run in both user-interactive and automated modes. Users may also develop their own Ghidra extension components and/or scripts using Java or Python.
In support of NSA's Cybersecurity mission, Ghidra was built to solve scaling and teaming problems on complex SRE efforts, and to provide a customizable and extensible SRE research platform. NSA has applied Ghidra SRE capabilities to a variety of problems that involve analyzing malicious code and generating deep insights for SRE analysts who seek a better understanding of potential vulnerabilities in networks and systems.
If you are a U.S. citizen interested in projects like this, to develop Ghidra and other cybersecurity tools for NSA to help protect our nation and its allies, consider applying for a career with us.
Daily snapshots
Stars gained per day, and how forks and open issues moved, from GStars' daily snapshots
+26,460 stars over 88 days across 45 snapshot days; best day +1,414 on Oct 13.
Forks
11.2K+3.3K
Open issues
2.2K+302
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