133  Rizin Reference Card

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133.1 Survival Guide

Those are the basic commands you will want to know and use for moving around a binary and getting information about it.

Command Description
help First introduction
s (tab) Seek to a different place
aa[a] Auto analyze (three a for more)
afl List functions
afvl List function local vars and args
avg List globals
t List types
iz[z] List strings (two z for more)
pdf @ funcname Disassemble function (main, fcn, etc)
x [nbytes] Hexdump of nbytes, $b by default
wx [nbytes] Write hexadecimal string
axt @ [flag/address] Find cross reference to a flag/address

133.2 Flags

Flags are like bookmarks, but they carry some extra information like size, tags or associated flagspace. Use f commands to list, set, get them.

Command Description
f name Add flag “name”
f- name Remove flag “name”
fl List flags
fd $$ Describe an offset
fN [name] Show the real name
fx [flagname] Show hexdump of flag
fC [name] [comment] Set flag comment

133.3 Functions and variables

Functions appear after auto-analysis or after adding them manually with the af command.

Command Description
af Analyze function
af- name Remove function “name”
afb List basic blocks
afi Show function information
afs Show function signature
afvl Show function variables
agf Show function graph

133.4 Global variables

Global variables appear after auto-analysis or after adding them manually.

Command Description
avg Show all globals
avg name Show global “name”
avga name type Add global variable
avgp name Print global variable
avgx name Show xrefs to the global

133.5 Information

Binary files have information stored inside the headers. The i command uses the RzBin API and allows us to the same things rz-bin does. Those are the most common ones.

Command Description
ii Information on imports
iI Info on binary
ie Display entrypoint
iS Display sections
ir Display relocations

133.7 Visual mode

The visual mode is the standard interactive interface of rizin.

To enter in visual mode use the v or V command, and then you’ll only have to press keys to get the actions happen instead of commands.

Command Description
V Enter visual mode
p/P Rotate modes (hex, disasm, debug, words, buf)
c Toggle (c)ursor
q Back to rizin shell
hjkl Move around (or HJKL) (left-down-up-right)
Enter Follow address of jump/call
sS Step/step over
o Toggle asm.pseudo and asm.esil
. Seek to program counter
/ In cursor mode, search in current block
:cmd Run rizin command
;[-]cmt Add/remove comment
/*+-[] Change block size, [] = resize hex.cols
<,> Seek aligned to block size
i/a/A (i)nsert hex, (a)ssemble code, visual (A)ssembler
b Toggle breakpoint
B Browse evals, symbols, flags, classes, …
d[f?] Define function, data, code, ..
D Enter visual diff mode (set diff.from/to)
e Edit eval configuration variables
f/F Set/unset flag
gG Go seek to begin and end of file (0-$s)
mK/’K Mark/go to Key (any key)
n/N Seek next/prev function/flag/hit (scr.nkey)
C Toggle (C)olors
R Randomize color palette (ecr)
tT Tab related. see also tab
v Visual code analysis menu
V (V)iew graph (agv?)
wW Seek cursor to next/prev word
uU Undo/redo seek
x Show xrefs of current func from/to data/code
yY Copy and paste selection
z fold/unfold comments in disassembly

133.8 Searching

There are many situations where we need to find a value inside a binary or in some specific regions. Use the e search.in=? command to choose where the / command may search for the given value.

Command Description
/ foo\00 Search for string ’foo\0’
/b Search backwards
// Repeat last search
/w foo Search for wide string ’f\0o\0o\0’
/wi foo Search for wide string ignoring case
/! ff Search for first occurrence not matching
/i foo Search for string ’foo’ ignoring case
/e /E.F/i Match regular expression
/x a1b2c3 Search for bytes; spaces and uppercase nibbles are allowed, same as /x A1 B2 C3
/x a1..c3 Search for bytes ignoring some nibbles (auto-generates mask, in this example: ff00ff)
/x a1b2:fff3 Search for bytes with mask (specify individual bits)
/d 101112 Search for a deltified sequence of bytes
/!x 00 Inverse hexa search (find first byte != 0x00)
/c jmp [esp] Search for asm code (see search.asmstr)
/a jmp eax Assemble opcode and search its bytes
/A Search for AES expanded keys
/r sym.printf Analyze opcode reference an offset
/R Search for ROP gadgets
/P Show offset of previous instruction
/m magicfile Search for matching magic file
/p patternsize Search for pattern of given size
/z min max Search for strings of given size
/v[?248] num Look for a asm.bigendian 32bit value

133.9 Usable variables in expression

The %$? command will display the variables that can be used in any math operation inside the rizin shell. For example, using the % $$ command to evaluate a number or %v to just the value in one format.

All commands in rizin that accept a number supports the use of those variables.

Command Description
$$ here (current virtual seek)
$? last comparison value
$B base address (aligned lowest map address)
$b block size
$D current debug map base address ?v $D @ rsp
$DB same as dbg.baddr, progam base address
$Fb begin of basic block
$FB begin of function
$Fe end of basic block
$FE end of function
$FS function size (linear length)
$Fs size of the current basic block
$FSS function size (sum bb sizes)
$s file size
$S section offset
$SS section size
${ev} get value of eval <config variable
$r{reg} get value of named register