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Visualizing binaries with space-filling curves (2011)

110 points by camtarn 9y ago

loler 9y ago
Check out: https://veles.io https://veles.io - it does binary visualization also in 3d
19eightyfour 9y ago
Oh, wow! This tool is something else. I highly recommend uploading a file. The interface is just spectacular. Also, the brush lets you calculate and apply different views. Things like entropy, magnitude. It's very visually attractive. One feature request I have is: please allow us to set the bit / word width of each unit. Currently it's fixed at 1 octet, and it would be useful to be able to change that. Otherwise, this is awesome! :)
- petters 9y ago
  Agree, binvis.io looks great! Just look at http://binvis.io/#/view/examples/elf-Linux-ARMv7-ls.bin http://binvis.io/#/view/examples/elf-Linux-ARMv7-ls.bin
- cortesi 9y ago
  Glad you like it! I have a long list of features planned for binvis, and word width is one of them. I'm a bit busy at the moment, but will make more time for the project soon.
ttoinou 9y ago
Nice idea. Would be cool to compare this with the zipped binary to see the change in entropy (altough the colors need to be changed)
CMay 9y ago
Visualizing binary data is definitely an interest of mine and I plan to eventually write some tools for this. It's really cool to see that my brainstormed list of features differs so much from some of the other available tools out there. Just part of that cycle of inspiration. Space-filling curves weren't even on my radar and I'm still not sure that I'd want to implement them. I do like the result, though and may take that into consideration.
wessorh 9y ago
http://icewater.io/ http://icewater.io/ has about 250m malware samples clustered using using something similar. My talk about it from Shmoocon in 2016 is at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzXzzbr4lqw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzXzzbr4lqw
Analemma_ 9y ago
If you need an introduction to the subject, 3Blue1Brown is a really good YouTube channel about mathematical visualizations, and they did an episode about Hilbert curves and why they're so useful: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DuiryHHTrjU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DuiryHHTrjU

110 points by camtarn 9y ago

Check out: https://veles.io https://veles.io - it does binary visualization also in 3d

Oh, wow! This tool is something else. I highly recommend uploading a file. The interface is just spectacular. Also, the brush lets you calculate and apply different views. Things like entropy, magnitude. It's very visually attractive. One feature request I have is: please allow us to set the bit / word width of each unit. Currently it's fixed at 1 octet, and it would be useful to be able to change that. Otherwise, this is awesome! :)

petters 9y ago
Agree, binvis.io looks great! Just look at http://binvis.io/#/view/examples/elf-Linux-ARMv7-ls.bin http://binvis.io/#/view/examples/elf-Linux-ARMv7-ls.bin
cortesi 9y ago
Glad you like it! I have a long list of features planned for binvis, and word width is one of them. I'm a bit busy at the moment, but will make more time for the project soon.

ttoinou 9y ago

Nice idea. Would be cool to compare this with the zipped binary to see the change in entropy (altough the colors need to be changed)

CMay 9y ago

Visualizing binary data is definitely an interest of mine and I plan to eventually write some tools for this. It's really cool to see that my brainstormed list of features differs so much from some of the other available tools out there. Just part of that cycle of inspiration. Space-filling curves weren't even on my radar and I'm still not sure that I'd want to implement them. I do like the result, though and may take that into consideration.

wessorh 9y ago

http://icewater.io/ http://icewater.io/ has about 250m malware samples clustered using using something similar. My talk about it from Shmoocon in 2016 is at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzXzzbr4lqw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzXzzbr4lqw

Analemma_ 9y ago

If you need an introduction to the subject, 3Blue1Brown is a really good YouTube channel about mathematical visualizations, and they did an episode about Hilbert curves and why they're so useful: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DuiryHHTrjU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DuiryHHTrjU