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hexwalk

HexWalk - Hex Editor/Viewer/Analyzer

HexWalk is an Hex editor, viewer, analyzer.

Based on opensource projects like qhexedit2,binwalk and QT.

It is cross platform and has plenty of features:

  • Advanced Find (can find patterns in binary files based on HEX,UTF8,UTF16 and regex)
  • Binwalk integration
  • Entropy Analysis
  • Byte Map
  • Hash Calculator
  • Bin/Dec/Hex Converter
  • Hex file editing
  • Diff file analysis
  • Byte Patterns to parse headers
  • Disassembler for x86,ARM and MIPS architectures

Screenshots

  • Main page hexwalk gui

  • Byte Map hexwalk gui

  • Advanced Search hexwalk gui

  • Entropy Calculator hexwalk gui

  • Binary Analyzer hexwalk gui

  • Hash Calculator hexwalk gui

  • Diff Analysis hexwalk gui

  • Binary Patterns for header parsing hexwalk gui

Usage

HexWalk release executables are self-contained, you can use as-is. Binwalk functionalities need Binwalk to be installed on the OS. For Linux OS simply install binwalk with your package manager (eg. sudo apt install binwalk). On Mac install with "brew install binwalk" or from sources following the instructions on Binwalk repository.

For more details about the usage go to the Wiki:

https://github.com/gcarmix/hexwalk/wiki

Windows

HexWalk on Windows is released in different flavours:

  • as an installer
  • as a portable zip file

The fastest way to install it is through winget:

winget install hexwalk

MacOS

On MacOS you can easily download the .dmg file available in the release page and drag the app in the Applications folder as usual

Ubuntu

The project is also available on launchpad https://launchpad.net/hexwalk to install on Ubuntu you can simply do:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:carmix/ppa

sudo apt update

sudo apt install hexwalk

Linux

For other Linux distributions there's the AppImage file available in the release page. Just download, give execution permissions and you are ready to go.

Build

If you want to build from source just open hexedit.pro in QT Creator and build it. It is possible also to build from command line (linux_build.sh script provided).

Acknowledgments

Thanks to these projects: