Currently supports ELF. Mach-O and PE support planned.

What's Inside

Interactive Hex Viewer Virtualized hex dump with color-coded regions, byte-level tooltips, click-to-inspect, and pattern search. Handles binaries of any size.	Struct Viewer C struct definitions alongside live decoded values. Hover a field and the corresponding bytes highlight — and vice versa. All ELF structs supported.
Memory Map Visualizer See how file bytes map to virtual address space. Animated SVG arrows connect disk offsets to memory addresses. BSS gaps, permissions — all visualized.	PLT/GOT Animator Step through lazy dynamic linking one instruction at a time. 5 animated steps with play/pause/step controls.
Section & Segment Toggle Switch between the linker's view (sections) and the loader's view (segments) of the same binary.	Compilation Pipeline Trace the journey from hello.c through preprocessing, compilation, assembly, and linking.

Plus: 68 searchable, categorized, cross-linked jargon terms covering ELF structure, symbols, linking, memory, and more.

Learning Modules

	Module	What You'll Learn
0	What happens when you run ./hello?	The full journey from shell to CPU
1	From Source to Binary	Preprocessing → compilation → assembly → linking
2	The ELF Header	First 64 bytes: magic, type, entry point, table offsets
3	Sections vs Segments	Linker's view vs loader's view of the same file
4	Sections Deep Dive	.text, .data, .bss, .symtab, .rodata in detail
5	Segments and Loading	PT_LOAD, PT_INTERP, memory mapping, permissions
6	Dynamic Linking	PLT/GOT, lazy binding, .dynamic, relocations
7	Full Explorer	All tools unlocked — load any binary or upload your own

Quick Start

git clone https://github.com/zahidaz/bin-xray.git
cd bin-xray
npm install
npm run dev

Open localhost:3000 and start exploring.

Sample Binaries

Pre-built ELF binaries in public/samples/:

Binary	What makes it interesting
hello-dynamic.bin	Dynamically linked — PLT/GOT, .interp, .dynamic
hello-static.bin	Statically linked — no dynamic sections
hello.o	Object file — sections only, no program headers
libhello.so	Shared library — ET_DYN, exported symbols
hello-stripped.bin	Stripped — no .symtab or .strtab

Regenerate from source (requires Linux + GCC)

bash scripts/generate-samples.sh

Roadmap

• Mach-O format support (macOS binaries)
• PE format support (Windows binaries)
• Auto-detect format from magic bytes
• DWARF debug info viewer
• Disassembly view (x86-64, ARM64)
• Binary diffing (side-by-side comparison)
• Challenge mode with interactive quizzes

Deploy Your Own

The app exports as a fully static site — no server required:

npm run build

Output lands in ./out. Drop it on any static host.

License

MIT