37 open-source General RE projects

General RE (Collections & Awesome Lists): open-source projects that exist because someone reverse engineered a closed product, sorted by GitHub stars.

1. Corkami pics★ 11,503 · slowing · Assembly

   Visual dissections and posters of binary file formats

2. awesome reverse-engineering (wtsxDev)★ 10,713 · dormant

   Most-starred list of reverse engineering tools and resources

3. Z0FCourse Reverse Engineering★ 5,990 · active · C++

   Free reverse engineering course focused on x64 Windows binaries

4. retoolkit★ 5,328 · active · Inno Setup

   Reverse Engineer's Toolkit installer bundling Windows RE tools

5. awesome-reverse-engineering (alphaSeclab)★ 5,163 · dormant

   Huge RE resource list for all platforms: 3500+ open source tools and 2300+ posts/videos

6. awesome-reversing (tylerha97)★ 4,526 · dormant

   Curated list of reversing resources: books, courses, tools, practice targets

7. iOS App Reverse Engineering★ 4,457 · dormant

   Free book on iOS app reverse engineering techniques

8. idaplugins-list★ 3,845 · slowing

   List of IDA Pro plugins

9. awesome-frida★ 3,553 · active

   Curated list of Frida resources

10. reverseengineering-reading-list★ 2,753 · dormant

    List of reverse engineering articles, books and papers

11. linux-re-101★ 2,084 · dormant

    Collection of resources for Linux reverse engineering

12. android-reverse★ 2,022 · slowing

    Curated list of Android reverse engineering tools (Chinese)

13. droidReverse★ 2,022 · dormant · Shell

    Collection of Android reverse engineering tools

14. osx-re-101★ 1,732 · dormant

    Collection of resources for macOS and iOS reverse engineering

15. awesome-executable-packing★ 1,635 · active

    Curated list of resources on executable packing and unpacking

16. awesome-reversing★ 1,545 · slowing

    Collection of resources for learning reverse engineering

17. awesome-ghidra★ 1,450 · active

    Curated list of Ghidra materials

18. apple-knowledge★ 1,415 · active · Ruby

    A collection of reverse engineered Apple things, as well as a machine-readable database of Apple hardware

19. awesome-reverse-engineering (morluto)★ 1,302 · active · Python

    Curated RE tools and learning resources for binaries, apps, firmware, formats and protocols

20. iOSRE★ 1,184 · dormant · Shell

    iOS reverse engineering resources and tools

21. awesome-reverse★ 1,173 · slowing · JavaScript

    Chinese list of reverse engineering resources for JS, Android apps and native code

22. Awesome-Reversing (ReversingID)★ 752 · active

    Curated list of reverse engineering resources by topic

23. awesome-radare2★ 739 · dormant

    Curated list of projects, articles and plugins built on radare2

24. awesome-decompilation★ 678 · slowing

    Curated list of decompilation resources, papers and projects (incl. AI decompilers)

25. ida-plugins★ 491 · slowing · JavaScript

    Interactive list of IDA Pro plugins

26. RE-Thing★ 349 · slowing

    Collection of reverse engineering tools (deobfuscators, decompilers)

27. re-list★ 262 · slowing

    List of open-source reverse engineering tools focused on binary analysis

28. decompilation-wiki★ 255 · active

    The Decompilation Wiki covering decompilers and research

29. remade★ 189 · active · TypeScript

    Community directory of open-source software reimplementations

30. PRE-list★ 188 · slowing · Python

    List of automatic network protocol reverse engineering tools

31. taobao-reverse-documents★ 146 · slowing

    Collection of reverse engineering documents for Taobao and Xianyu (libsgmain.so)

32. awesome-reverse-engineering-and-malware-analysis★ 97 · active · Shell

    Verified map of RE and malware-analysis tools: disassemblers, unpacking, firmware

33. Awesome-Binary-Analysis-Automation★ 61 · slowing

    Curated list of binary analysis automation resources and tools

34. PRE-Resources★ 22 · dormant

    List of protocol reverse engineering resources

35. Awesome REA (kaixinbaba)★ 14 · active · JavaScript

    Directory of open-source reconstructions, reimplementations and compatible alternatives

36. awesome-reverse-engineering (cybersecurity-dev)★ 6 · active

    Curated list of reverse engineering resources

37. awesome-web-reversing★ 4 · active · Python

    Tools and workflows for runtime JavaScript reverse engineering of web apps