Something that I see great utility in is to make patterns more visual, especially when you’re working with things that are deeper in the system components.
Enter ‘bytes-circle’
In short it creates statistics circle for analyzing byte entropy in files
Humans are really good at understanding patterns, and I think this tool proves useful to identify patterns in files based on the entropy of those files.
What other byte analysis tools do you find use of?
IMHex with all its utilities is my first stop when analyzing non-executable files at the byte level.
Another classic that many might not have heard of, though very powerful and useful (and console/text native) is the hachoir suite: Welcome to Hachoir’s documentation! — Hachoir 3.3.0 documentation
Much like the excellent binwalk** (and oddly also 7zip) hachoir is worth running on unknown files (carefully) to see what insights they might have.
Great topic Rye and answer Taggart!
** Binwalk release 3 is a Rust lang rewrite, wow: GitHub - ReFirmLabs/binwalk: Firmware Analysis Tool · GitHub
