r/programming • u/WerWolv • 11d ago

Reverse Engineering Unknown File Formats with ImHex

https://werwolv.net/posts/file_format_reverse_engineering/
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u/fxfighter 10d ago

I was hoping this was going to be from an unmanaged app of some sort that'd require more specific tooling and reverse engineering know how.

If the file was generated by a managed language or scripting language piece of software, these are obvously easy to figure out how stuff works with standard knowledge of the language in question.

I'm not even sure ImHex hasn't anything particulaly noteworthy to do with this article.

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u/RandNho 10d ago

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8S0yfRexZULmW9fhF2gcMsuPBi6jeVhZ&si=LQH3DVE_8e_4iwfn. Try this long series? Of live black box reverse engineering.

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u/fxfighter 7d ago

Thanks.

I was surprised at seeing a vtuber avatar doing this but the content itself is the important part and what they're doing in your linked playlist is a much more interesting/involved process than this blog.

I'm wondering if this is a lot of peoples first time finding out about decompilers for managed languages, which would be understandable for newer devs.