Avatar² vs BAP (Binary Analysis Platform)
Avatar²
github.comBAP (Binary Analysis Platform)
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| Figure | Avatar² | BAP (Binary Analysis Platform) |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | Free | Free |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Free trial | — | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Linux | Yes | Yes |
| API | — | Yes |
| Self-hosted | Yes | Yes |
| Plans published | 1 | 1 |
| Spec score · Reverse Engineering Tools | 7.9 (#17) | 8.7 (#3) |
| License | The repository identifies its license as Apache-2.0. | The GitHub repository identifies the project license as MIT. |
| Maintainer | Avatar² is developed and maintained by EURECOM's Software and System Security Group. | The official About page says BAP is built and maintained by David Brumley's research group at Carnegie Mellon University. |
| Purpose | Avatar² is a target orchestration framework for dynamic analysis of embedded-device firmware. | BAP is a suite of utilities and libraries for analyzing binary programs. |
| Support | The maintainers direct users to a public mailing list and an invite-based Slack community. | The installation instructions direct users who encounter missing system dependencies to the project's chat for help. |
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In their own words
Avatar²
Avatar² is a free Python framework for dynamic analysis of embedded-device firmware. It coordinates targets, memory layouts and execution plans so firmware execution can be divided across multiple targets. Targets communicate through protocols with emulators, analysis frameworks or physical devices. The handbook documents GDB, OpenOCD, J-Link, QEMU and PANDA targets. OpenOCDTarget connects to physical targets over JTAG, while JLinkTarget supports SWD and JTAG. PANDA support includes recording and replaying execution and managing analysis plugins. Memory layouts define regions and rules for forwarding reads and writes between targets. The project documents installation through pip, from source or in Docker, where QEMU and PANDA are the defaults. It lists Linux support and ARM Cortex-M3 and x86-64 architectures. The README provides target build scripts for Ubuntu 20.04; other distributions are not officially supported, though they may work with modifications. The project uses the Apache-2.0 license and is maintained by EURECOM's Software and System Security Group. Maintainers direct users to a public mailing list and an invite-based Slack community.
BAP (Binary Analysis Platform)
BAP (Binary Analysis Platform) has no write-up on Specifiction yet; its figures are above.