Best Reverse Engineering Tools in 2026 — page 2

Refinery

Refinery offers Rust projects migration tracking, transaction handling, and embedded or command-line execution.

dotPeek

Choose dotPeek if you need a free Windows tool for decompiling and browsing .NET assemblies, with source lookup and Visual Studio debugger support.

EUVA (EngineUnpacker Visual Analyzer)

EUVA combines binary inspection, decompilation, disassembly, and detection tools in a free Windows application.

pycdc

Choose pycdc if you need a free command-line tool for decompiling Python bytecode and can build the project from source.

RetDec

RetDec provides broad format and architecture support, with decompilation output and analysis tools available at no charge.

Rizin

Rizin offers a broad set of binary analysis tools, scripting, plugins, and a graphical interface through Cutter.

Hiew

Choose Hiew if you need a Windows console program with text, hex, and disassembler views, broad executable-format support, and file editing.

Medusa

Choose Medusa if you operate Apache Cassandra and need self-managed backups, verification, and cluster restore options across multiple storage destinations.

uncompyle6

Choose uncompyle6 if you need a free command-line option for translating supported Python bytecode or examining fragments in a debugger.

Vivisect

Vivisect provides broad analysis modes, architecture coverage, scripting, and debugging without a license fee.

DRAKVUF

DRAKVUF offers agentless monitoring for malware analysis and other binary tracing, with Windows plugins for several forms of activity.

FirmWire

FirmWire combines emulation, fuzzing, debugging, scripting, and firmware injection for supported baseband images.

Smali/Baksmali

Smali/Baksmali provides focused dex assembly and disassembly with broad format support and Java-based components. Its archived, read-only repository is an important maintenance consideration.

Miasm

Miasm provides extensive binary-analysis, emulation, and symbolic-execution capabilities under GPLv2.

Procyon

Procyon combines Java reflection, code-generation tools, expression trees, and decompilation in a free suite.

decompyle3

decompyle3 offers a free command-line route from Python bytecode to source, with documented support starting at version 3.7.

Relyze

Relyze combines decompilation, diffing, graphs, and batch analysis for native-code investigation.

Triton

Triton provides a broad set of dynamic binary-analysis capabilities across major architectures.

Apktool

Apktool is a free, cross-platform option for static Android analysis. Its listed feature set is focused, with no decompiler, firmware analysis, or plugin API.

B2R2

B2R2 offers free, cross-platform static analysis with unusually broad architecture coverage.

BeaEngine

BeaEngine offers free, cross-platform static analysis for specified x86 architectures.

capa

Detect It Easy

Androguard

iced-x86

iced-x86 provides free static analysis focused on Intel and AMD x86 instructions across several environments.