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radare2 Quick Reference

This Reverse Engineering field brief frames radare2 Quick Reference around the trust boundaries an authorized assessor needs to verify. Use it to plan safe validation, capture reproducible evidence and distinguish a meaningful control failure from an isolated technical symptom.

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Why it matters in practice

Within Reverse Engineering, radare2 Quick Reference changes how scope, prerequisites and evidence should be handled. Focus on the concrete asset or data flow under test, record the assumptions that make the condition exploitable and connect verified behavior to an operational consequence and remediation decision.

This note keeps radare2 Quick Reference tied to offensive workflow: what to observe, what to prove, what usually goes wrong, and which references remain useful once an assessment moves from planning into active validation.

Primary coverage

The coverage below turns radare2 Quick Reference into an assessment map for Reverse Engineering: identify the relevant system boundary, select a safe validation path, preserve evidence and record uncertainty before drawing a conclusion.

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Assessment focus

#Radare2:
-w -> write mode
-AA -> for additional analysis (for C++ programs)
-d -> Debug mode
V -> visual Mode
VV -> graph mode
V! -> GUI mode
i - basic information
u -> go back
Enter -> follow call
A -> patch istruction
: -> command prompt
command “axt” -> cross references to
q -> quit
do -> restart program
db -> set breakpoint
dc -> continue
F7 -> single step
ii -> imports
ie -> Entry point
iE -> Exports
iS -> Sections
is -> Symbols
afl -> function list
iz -> strings in .data
izz -> all strings
x -> cross references in graph mode
; -> comment
" -> select view in V! mode
- -> split vie in V! mode
Capital Vim controls -> resize views
/m -> search for magic numbers
wtf! -> write to file
? <address> - different data representations

#Rabin2:
-I  -> general binary information
-H -> Headers
-M -> Main fucntion
-zz -> Strings

#Rafind2:
-s <string> -> offset of string

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