Imhex: A hex editor for reverse engineers

ImHex has so far been the best hex editor I’ve used for a few reasons. Some of these exist in other editors but rarely all together. 1. File templates mean that it auto highlights sections of known file types. 2. It shows how selected bytes may be interpreted as pretty much every common data type that I would want and does so simultaneously. 3. It’s significantly faster than other editors for me when I use large files On the downside…

Hex editors are a seriously undervalued learning tool. As a kid, I loved opening up the game files of stuff I was playing and see what I could tweak. I’m not sure this particular editor could replace HxD for me - I’m not seeing process memory editing in its list of features. I’m glad to see the space is still getting love though.

ImHex uses capstone to map hex values to opcodes, depending on which ISA (Instruction Set Architecture) you have choosen. That makes it a nifty little tool for reverse engineering. http://www.capstone-engine.org/ Under the hood, Capstone use LLVM's TableGen as a source for descriptions of registers and opcodes. http://llvm.org/docs/TableGen/index.html I've given ImHex a test run on an Amiga binary and it kind of works. However, the Amiga Hunk format (equivalent of ELF) is not recognized, and is interpreted as…