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General Analysis

layout

On the startup, you can get a general information about the binary file. This information includes:

  • the file size, owner, group, permissions and date information (similar to stat(1))
  • the shared libraries that are linked (similar to ldd(1))

File Information

Here is an example information shown in this tab:

file information

You can press h and l to scroll vertically.


Linked Shared Libraries

linked libraries

You can press enter to re-run binsider with the selected shared library and backspace to go back. This means you can not only analyze a single binary but also the linked shared libraries as well.

Here is an example of cycling through the shared libraries of xz binary:

analyze library

You can see the analysis path on the top right corner of the screen:

library path