NationalSecurityAgency/ghidra

Ghidra is a software reverse engineering (SRE) framework

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Ghidra is a software reverse engineering (SRE) framework created and maintained by the National Security Agency Research Directorate. This framework includes a suite of full-featured, high-end software analysis tools that enable users to analyze compiled code on a variety of platforms including Windows, macOS, and Linux. Capabilities include disassembly, assembly, decompilation, graphing, and scripting, along with hundreds of other features. Ghidra supports a wide variety of processor instruction sets and executable formats and can be run in both user-interactive and automated modes. Users may also develop their own Ghidra extension components and/or scripts using Java or Python. In support of NSA's Cybersecurity mission, Ghidra was built to solve scaling and teaming problems on complex SRE efforts, and to provide a customizable and extensible SRE research platform. NSA has applied Ghidra SRE capabilities to a variety of problems that involve analyzing malicious code and generating deep insights for SRE analysts who…

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  1. Ghidra Software Reverse Engineering Framework
  2. Security Warning
  3. Install
  4. Build
  5. Install build tools:
  6. Download and extract the source:
  7. Download additional build dependencies into source repository:
  8. Create development build:
  9. Develop
  10. User Scripts and Extensions
  11. Advanced Development
  12. Install build and development tools:

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Ghidra is a software reverse engineering (SRE) framework

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Owner
NationalSecurityAgency
Primary language
Java
Stars
96,339
Forks
10,867
Open issues + pull requests
1,961
License
Apache-2.0
Archived
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Default branch
master
Created
2019-03-01T03:27:48.000Z
Last push
2026-09-15T16:02:22.000Z

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Owner-supplied topics: disassembler, reverse-engineering, software-analysis

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