ImHex - 🔍 A Hex Editor for Reverse Engineers, Programmers

项目说明

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A Hex Editor for Reverse Engineers, Programmers and people who value their retinas when working at 3 AM.
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Supporting

If you like my work, please consider supporting me on GitHub Sponsors or Ko-Fi. Thanks a lot!
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Screenshots

!Hex editor, patterns and data information
!Bookmarks, data information, find view and data processor

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<summary><strong>More Screenshots</strong></summary>

!Data Processor decrypting some data and displaying it as an image
!STL Parser written in the Pattern Language a 3D model
!Data Information view displaying stats about the file

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Features

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<summary><strong>Featureful hex view</strong></summary>

- Byte patching
- Patch management
- Infinite Undo/Redo
- "Copy bytes as..."
- Bytes
- Hex string
- C, C++, C#, Rust, Python, Java & Ja array
- ASCII-Art hex view
- HTML self-contained div
- Simple string and hex search
- Goto from start, end and current cursor position
- Colorful highlighting
- Configurable foreground highlighting rules
- Background highlighting using patterns, find results and bookmarks
- Displaying data as a list of many different types
- Hexadecimal integers (8, 16, 32, 64 bit)
- Signed and unsigned decimal integers (8, 16, 32, 64 bit)
- Floats (16, 32, 64 bit)
- RGBA8 Colors
- HexII
- Binary
- Decoding data as ASCII and custom encodings
- Built-in support for UTF-8, UTF-16, ShiftJIS, most Windows encodings and many more
- Paged data view
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<summary><strong>Custom C++-like pattern language for parsing highlighting a file's content</strong></summary>

- Automatic loading based on MIME types and magic
- Arrays, pointers, structs, unions, enums, bitfields, namespaces, little and big endian support, conditionals and much more!
- Useful error messages, syntax highlighting and error marking
- Support for many different types of data
- Images
- Audio
- 3D Models
- Coordinates
- Time stamps
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<summary><strong>Theming support</strong></summary>

- Doesn't burn out your retinas when used in late-night sessions
- Dark mode by default, but a light mode is a as well
- Customizable colors and styles for all UI elements through shareable theme files
- Support for custom fonts
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<summary><strong>Importing and Exporting data</strong></summary>

- Base64 files
- IPS and IPS32 patches
- Markdown reports
- Binary arrays for programming languages
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<summary><strong>Data Inspector</strong></summary>

- Interpreting data as many different types with endianness, decimal, hexadecimal and octal support and bit in
- Unsigned and signed integers (8, 16, 24, 32, 48, 64 bit)
- Floats (16, 32, 64 bit)
- Signed and Unsigned LEB128
- ASCII, Wide and UTF-8 characters and strings
- time32_t, time64_t, DOS date and time
- GUIDs
- RGBA8 and RGB65 Colors
- Copying and modifying bytes through the inspector
- Adding new data types through the pattern language
- Support for hiding rows that aren't used
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<summary><strong>Node-based data pre-processor</strong></summary>

- Modify, decrypt and decode data before it's being displayed in the hex editor
- Modify data without touching the underlying 源码
- Support for adding custom nodes
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<summary><strong>Loading data from many different data sources</strong></summary>

- Local Files
- Support for huge files with fast and efficient loading
- Raw Disks
- Loading data from raw disks and partitions
- GDB Server
- Access the RAM of a running process or embedded devices through GDB
- Intel Hex and Motorola SREC data
- Base64 encoded data
- UDP Packets
- Support for displaying raw data received over UDP
- Process Memory
- Inspect the entire address space of a running process
- Remote Files over SSH with SFTP
- Support for loading files from remote servers using SSH and SFTP
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<summary><strong>Data searching</strong></summary>

- Support for searching the entire file or only a selection
- String extraction
- Option to specify minimum length and character set (lower case, upper case, digits, symbols)
- Option to specify encoding (ASCII, UTF-8, UTF-16 big and little endian)
- Sequence search
- Search for a sequence of bytes or characters
- Option to ignore character case
- Regex search
- Search for strings using regular expressions
- Binary Pattern
- Search for sequences of bytes with optional wildcards
- Numeric Value search
- Search for signed/unsigned integers and floats
- Search for ranges of
- Option to specify size and endianness
- Option to ignore unaligned
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<summary><strong>Data hashing support</strong></summary>

- Many different algorithms a
- CRC8, CRC16 and CRC32 with custom initial and polynomials
- Many default polynomials a
- MD5
- SHA-1, SHA-224, SHA-256, SHA-384, SHA-512
- Adler32
- AP
- BKDR
- Bernstein, Bernstein1
- DEK, DJB, ELF, FNV1, FNV1a, JS, PJW, RS, SDBM
- OneAtTime, Rotating, ShiftAndXor, SuperFast
- Murmur2_32, MurmurHash3_x86_32, MurmurHash3_x86_128, MurmurHash3_x64_128
- SipHash64, SipHash128
- XXHash32, XXHash64
- Tiger, Tiger2
- Blake2B, Blake2S
- Hashing of specific regions of the loaded data
- Hashing of arbitrary strings
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<summary><strong>Diffing support</strong></summary>

- Compare data of different data sources
- Difference highlighting
- Table view of differences
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<summary><strong>Integrated disassembler</strong></summary>

- Support for all architectures supported by Capstone
- ARM32 (ARM, Thumb, Cortex-M, AArch32)
- ARM64
- MIPS (MIPS32, MIPS64, MIPS32R6, Micro)
- x86 (16-bit, 32-bit, 64-bit)
- PowerPC (32-bit, 64-bit)
- SPARC
- IBM SystemZ
- xCORE
- M68K
- TMS320C64X
- M680X
- Ethereum
- RISC-V
- WebAssembly
- MOS65XX
- Berkeley Packet Filter
- Support for writing custom disassemblers for your own architectures
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<summary><strong>Bookmarks</strong></summary>

- Support for bookmarks with custom names and colors
- Highlighting of bookmarked region in the hex editor
- Jump to bookmarks
- Open content of bookmark in a new tab
- Add comments to bookmarks
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<summary><strong>Featureful data analyzer and </strong></summary>

- File magic-based file parser and MIME type 数据库
- Byte type distribution graph
- Entropy graph
- Highest and a entropy
- Encrypted / Compressed file detection
- Digram and Layered distribution graphs
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<summary><strong>YARA Rule support</strong></summary>

- Scan a file for with official yara rules
- Highlight matches in the hex editor
- Jump to matches
- Apply multiple rules at once
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<summary><strong>Helpful tools</strong></summary>

- Itanium, MSVC, Rust and D-Lang demangler based on LLVM
- ASCII table
- Regex replacer
- Mathematical expression e (Calculator)
- Graphing calculator
- Hexadecimal Color picker with support for many different formats
- Base con
- Byte swapper
- UNIX Permissions calculator
- Wikipedia term definition finder
- File utilities
- File splitter
- File combiner
- File shredder
- IEEE754 Float
- Di by in multiplication calculator
- TCP Client/Server
- Euclidean algorithm calculator
- HTTP Requests
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<summary><strong>Built-in Content updater</strong></summary>

- Download all files found in the 数据库 directly from within ImHex
- Pattern files for decoding file formats
- Libraries for the pattern language
- Magic files for file type detection
- Custom data processor nodes
- Custom encodings
- Custom themes
- Yara rules
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<summary><strong>Modern Interface</strong></summary>

- Support for multiple workspaces
- Support for custom layouts
- Detachable windows
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<summary><strong>Easy to get started</strong></summary>

- Support for many different languages
- Simplified mode for beginners
- Extensi
- Many example files a on the Database
- Achie guiding you through the features of ImHex
- Interacti
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Pattern Language

The Pattern Language is the completely custom programming language de for ImHex.
It allows you to define structures and data types in a C-like syntax and then use them to parse and highlight a file's content.

Source Code: Link

Documentation: Link

Database

For format patterns, libraries, magic and constant files, check out the ImHex-Patterns repository.

Feel free to PR your own files there as well!

Requirements

To use ImHex, the following minimal system requirements need to be met.

> [!IMPORTANT]
> ImHex requires a GPU with OpenGL 3.0 support in general.
> There are releases a (with the -NoGPU suffix) that are software rendered and don't require a GPU, howe can be a lot slower than the GPU accelerated .
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> If possible at all, make ImHex use the dedicated GPU on your system instead of the integrated one.
> ImHex will usually run fine with integrated GPUs as well but certain Intel HD GPU drivers on Windows are known to cause graphical artifacts.

OS:

- Windows: Windows 7 or higher (Windows 10/11 recommended)
- macOS: macOS 15 (Sequoia) or higher,
- Lower should still work too, but you'll need to compile ImHex yourself. The release binaries will NOT work due to GitHub not having any macOS 15 or lower CI runners a.
- The macOS build is not signed and will require you to manually allow them in the Security & Privacy settings.
- Linux: "Modern" Linux. The following distributions ha releases a. Other distros are supported through the AppImage, Flatpak and Snap releases.
- Ubuntu and Debian
- Fedora
- RHEL/AlmaLinux
- Arch Linux
- Basically any other distro will work as well when compiling ImHex from sources.
- FreeBSD: Tested on FreeBSD 14.3
- Other will most likely work too but are untested

CPU: Officially supported are x86, AMD64 and ARM64, though any Little Endian CPU should work.

GPU: OpenGL 3.0 or higher

- Integrated Intel HD iGPUs are supported, howe drivers are known to cause graphical artifacts, especially on Windows. Use at your own risk.
- In case you don't have a GPU a, there are software rendered releases a for Windows and macOS

RAM: ~50MiB, more is required for more complex analysis

Storage: ~100MiB

Installing

Information on how to install ImHex can be found in the Install guide

Compiling

To compile ImHex on any platform, GCC (or Clang) is required with a that supports C++23 or higher.
Windows and Linux releases are being built using latest a GCC.
MacOS releases are being built using latest a LL.

Important to note is, the MSVC and AppleClang compilers are both NOT supported since they're both generally se outdated and lack features GCC and LL have.

> [!NOTE]
> Many dependencies are bundled into the repository using submodules so make sure to clone it using the --recurse-submodules option.
> All dependencies that aren't bundled, can be installed using the dependency installer scripts found in the /dist folder.

For more information, check out the Compiling guide.

Contributing

See Contributing

Plugin de

To develop plugins for ImHex, use the following template project to get started. You then ha to the entirety of libimhex as well as the ImHex API and the Content Registry to interact with ImHex or to add new content.
To build a plugin, you will need to use our SDK

Getting the SDK locally

You can build the SDK by compiling ImHex like this:

cmake -G Ninja -DIMHEX_BUNDLE_PLUGIN_SDK=ON -B build

cd build

DESTDIR=install ninja install

The SDK will then be a at install/usr/local/share/imhex/sdk. You will need to set the IMHEX_SDK_PATH to that (absolute) path.

Getting the SDK in a Github Actions CI

You can use this action to automatically download the SDK to your Github Runner

ImHex Plugin Template

Credits

Contributors

AxCut for a gigantic amount of contributions to the Pattern Text Editor and tons of other parts of ImHex

iTrooz for getting ImHex onto the Web as well as hundreds of contributions in every part of the project

jumanji144 for huge contributions to the Pattern Language and ImHex's infrastructure

Mary for her immense help porting ImHex to macOS and help during de

Roblabla for adding MSI Installer support to ImHex

Mailaender for getting ImHex onto Flathub

E else who has reported issues on Discord or GitHub that I had great con with :)

Dependencies

Thanks a lot to ocornut for their amazing Dear ImGui which is used for building the entire interface

- Thanks to epezent for ImPlot used to plot data in places
- Thanks to Nelarius for ImNodes used as base for the data processor
- Thanks to BalazsJako for ImGuiColorTextEdit used for the pattern language syntax highlighting

Thanks to nlohmann for their json library used for configuration files

Thanks to for their libfmt library which makes formatting and logging so much better

Thanks to btzy for nati and their great support, used for handling file dialogs on all platforms

Thanks to danyspin97 for xdgpp used to handle folder paths on Linux

Thanks to aquynh for capstone which is the base of the disassembly window

Thanks to rxi for microtar used for extracting downloaded store assets

Thanks to for Yara used by the Yara plugin

Thanks to Martinsos for edlib used for sequence searching in the diffing view

Thanks to ron4fun for HashLibPlus which implements every hashing algorithm under the sun

Thanks to mackron for miniaudio used to play audio files

Thanks to all other groups and organizations whose libraries are used in ImHex

License

The biggest part of ImHex is under the GPL license.
Notable exceptions to this are the following parts which are under the LGPLv2.1 license:

/lib/libimhex: The library that allows Plugins to interact with ImHex.

/plugins/ui: The UI plugin library that contains some common UI elements that can be used by other plugins

The reason for this is to allow for proprietary plugins to be de for ImHex.

Code Signing Policy

Free 代码 signing provided by SignPath.io,
certificate by SignPath Foundation.

This program will not transfer any information to other networked systems
unless specifically requested by the user or the person installing or
operating it.

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项目信息

开发语言：C++

Star 数：54979

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