ImHex
Topic: Software
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| Developer(s) | WerWolv |
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| Initial release | November 12, 2020 |
| Stable release | 1.37.4
/ February 26, 2025 |
| Written in | C++ |
| Operating system | Windows, macOS, Linux |
| Available in | English |
| Type | Hex editor |
| License | GNU General Public License v2.0 |
| Website | imhex |
ImHex is a free cross-platform hex editor available on Windows, macOS, and Linux.[1]
ImHex is used by programmers and reverse engineers to view and analyze binary data.[2]
History
The initial release of the project in November 2020, saw significant interest on GitHub.[3]
Features
Features include:[4]
- Hex editor
- Custom pattern matching and analysis scripting language
- Visual, node based data pre-processor
- Disassembler
- Running and visualizing of YARA rules
- Bookmarks
- Binary data diffing
- Additional Tools
Support for:
- Data importing and exporting
- ASCII string, Unicode string, numeric, hexadecimal and regular expressions search
- Byte manipulation
- File hashing
- Plug-ins
See also
References
- ↑ "ImHex: An Open Hex Editor For The Modern Hacker" (in en-US). 2023-01-10. https://hackaday.com/2023/01/10/imhex-an-open-hex-editor-for-the-modern-hacker/.
- ↑ Anónimo. "ImHex - A Hex Editor For Reverse Engineers, Programmers And People That Value Their Eye Sight When Working At 3 AM." (in en). http://www.hacking.land/2021/01/imhex-hex-editor-for-reverse-engineers.html.
- ↑ Synced (2020-12-08). "'ImHex' Tops GitHub Trending Repos With 1600 Stars in 24 Hours!" (in en). https://medium.com/syncedreview/imhex-tops-github-trending-repos-with-1600-stars-in-24-hours-9d67e81c668b.
- ↑ WerWolv (2023-01-29), WerWolv/ImHex, https://github.com/WerWolv/ImHex, retrieved 2023-01-29
External links
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