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This article is about the reverse-engineering tool. For the fictional monster, see King Ghidorah.
Ghidra
Original author(s)NSA
Initial releaseMarch 5, 2019; 5 years ago (2019-03-05)
Stable release
11.0[1] / December 22, 2023; 10 months ago (2023-12-22)
Repositorygithub.com/NationalSecurityAgency/ghidra
Written inJava, C++
LicenseApache License 2.0 / Public domain[2]
Websiteghidra-sre.org

Ghidra (pronounced GEE-druh;[3] /ˈɡiːdrə/[4]) is a free and open source reverse engineering tool developed by the National Security Agency (NSA) of the United States. The binaries were released at RSA Conference in March 2019; the sources were published one month later on GitHub.[5] Ghidra is seen by many security researchers as a competitor to IDA Pro.[6] The software is written in Java using the Swing framework for the GUI. The decompiler component is written in C++, and is therefore usable in a stand-alone form.[7]

Scripts to perform automated analysis with Ghidra can be written in Java or Python (via Jython),[8][9] though this feature is extensible and support for other programming languages is available via community plugins.[10] Plugins adding new features to Ghidra itself can be developed using a Java-based extension framework.[11]

History

Ghidra's existence was originally revealed to the public via Vault 7 in March 2017,[12] but the software itself remained unavailable until its declassification and official release two years later.[5] Some comments in its source code indicates that it existed as least in 1999.[13]

In June 2019, Coreboot began to use Ghidra for its reverse engineering efforts on firmware-specific problems following the open source release of the Ghidra software suite.[14]

Ghidra can be used, officially,[15][16] as a debugger since Ghidra 10.0. Ghidra's debugger supports debugging user-mode Windows programs via WinDbg, and Linux programs via GDB.[17]

Supported architectures

The following architectures or binary formats are supported:[18] [19]

See also

References

  1. ^ "Releases · NationalSecurityAgency/ghidra". GitHub. Archived from the original on 2023-07-30. Retrieved 2023-12-22.
  2. ^ "ghidra/NOTICE". GitHub.com. Archived from the original on 27 October 2022. Retrieved 13 April 2019.
  3. ^ "Frequently asked questions". GitHub.com. Archived from the original on 5 March 2019. Retrieved 7 March 2019.
  4. ^ "Come Get Your Free NSA Reverse Engineering Tool!". YouTube.com. Archived from the original on 2021-12-15. Retrieved 17 May 2019.
  5. ^ a b Newman, Lily Hay. "The NSA Makes Ghidra, a Powerful Cybersecurity Tool, Open Source". Wired. Archived from the original on 6 March 2019. Retrieved 6 March 2019.
  6. ^ Cimpanu, Catalin. "NSA releases Ghidra, a free software reverse engineering toolkit". ZDNet. Archived from the original on 2019-03-06. Retrieved 2019-03-07.
  7. ^ e. g. as Plugin Archived 2022-10-14 at the Wayback Machine for Radare2 oder Rizin.
  8. ^ "Ghidra Scripting Class". GitHub. Archived from the original on 2023-02-20. Retrieved 2023-02-19.
  9. ^ "Three Heads are Better Than One: Mastering NSA's Ghidra Reverse Engineering Tool" (PDF). GitHub. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2020-03-01. Retrieved 2019-09-30.
  10. ^ "Ghidraal". GitHub. Archived from the original on 2023-02-20. Retrieved 2023-02-19.
  11. ^ "Ghidra Advanced Development Class". GitHub. Archived from the original on 2023-02-20. Retrieved 2023-02-19.
  12. ^ "NSA to release a free reverse engineering tool". ZDNET. Retrieved 2024-02-22.
  13. ^ "Build software better, together". GitHub. Retrieved 2024-02-22.
  14. ^ "Coreboot Project Is Leveraging NSA Software To Help With Firmware Reverse Engineering". Archived from the original on 2009-09-21. Retrieved 2019-06-05.
  15. ^ "Compiled/built Ghidra 9.3 for Windows with Debugger feature by Galician R&D Center in Advanced Telecommunications employees". Archived from the original on 2022-11-25. Retrieved 2022-11-25.
  16. ^ "Analizando el depurador de Ghidra". 11 March 2021. Archived from the original on 14 December 2022. Retrieved 14 December 2022.
  17. ^ "What's new in Ghidra 10.0". Archived from the original on 2023-06-19. Retrieved 2021-06-24.
  18. ^ "Rob Joyce on Twitter". Twitter.com. Archived from the original on 7 March 2019. Retrieved 6 March 2019.
  19. ^ "List of Processors Supported by Ghidra". Github.com. Archived from the original on 12 October 2023. Retrieved 29 September 2023.


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