Reverse Engineers' Hex Editor
A cross-platform (Windows, Linux, Mac, BSD) hex editor for reverse engineering, and everything else.
An online copy of the manual can be accessed here: solemnwarning.net/rehex/manual/.
Features
- Large (1TB+) file support
- Decoding of integer/floating point value types
- Inline disassembly of machine code
- Highlighting and annotation of ranges of bytes
- Side by side comparision of whole files or selections
- Lua scripting support (API reference)
- Virtual address mapping support
- Support for common text encodings (ASCII, Unicode, ISO-8859-X)
- Import and export of Intel HEX files.
- Bitmap data visualisation.
- Binary Templates for automatically annotating data (similar to 010 Editor).
Installation
The Releases page has standalone packages for Windows and Mac, as well as installable packages for popular Linux distributions, or you can install them from a distribution package repository as described below.
The same packages are also produced for Git commits (look for the tick), if you want to try the development/unreleased versions.
Debian
First, you will need to add my APT signing key to your system:
sudo wget -O /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/solemnwarning-archive-keyring.gpg \
https://repos.solemnwarning.net/debian/solemnwarning-archive-keyring.gpg
Add the following lines to your /etc/apt/sources.list file:
deb http://repos.solemnwarning.net/debian/ CODENAME main
deb-src http://repos.solemnwarning.net/debian/ CODENAME main
NOTE: Replace CODENAME with the version you're running (e.g. bullseye or buster).
Finally, you can install the package:
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install rehex
Ubuntu
First, you will need to add my APT signing key to your system:
sudo wget -O /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/solemnwarning-archive-keyring.gpg \
https://repos.solemnwarning.net/ubuntu/solemnwarning-archive-keyring.gpg
Add the following lines to your /etc/apt/sources.list file:
If running Ubuntu 20.04 (Focal Fossa) or later:
deb [arch=amd64] http://repos.solemnwarning.net/ubuntu/ CODENAME main
deb-src [arch=amd64] http://repos.solemnwarning.net/ubuntu/ CODENAME main
NOTE: Replace CODENAME with the version you're running (e.g. focal for 20.04 or hirsute for 21.04).
If running Ubuntu 18.04 (Bionic Beaver):
deb http://repos.solemnwarning.net/ubuntu/ bionic main
deb-src http://repos.solemnwarning.net/ubuntu/ bionic main
Finally, you can install the package:
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install rehex
NOTE: Ubuntu users must have the "universe" package repository enabled to install some of the dependencies.
Fedora
$ sudo dnf copr enable solemnwarning/rehex
$ sudo dnf install rehex
CentOS
$ sudo dnf install epel-release
$ sudo dnf copr enable solemnwarning/rehex
$ sudo dnf install rehex
openSUSE
$ sudo zypper ar obs://editors editors
$ sudo zypper ref
$ sudo zypper in rehex
FreeBSD
$ pkg install rehex
Building
If you want to compile on Linux, just check out the source and run make. You will need Jansson, wxWidgets, GTK+, Capstone, Lua, libunistring and Template Toolkit installed, along with their development packages (sudo apt install build-essential git libcapstone-dev libgtk-3-dev libjansson-dev libwxgtk3.0-gtk3-dev liblua5.3-dev libtemplate-perl libunistring-dev lua5.3 zip lua-busted on Ubuntu).
The resulting build can be installed using make install, which accepts all the standard environment variables.
For Windows or Mac build instructions, see the relevant README: README.Windows.md README.OSX.md
Feedback
If you find any bugs or have suggestions for improvements or new features, please open an issue on Github, or join the #rehex IRC channel on irc.libera.chat.