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BinSight

The AI X-ray for any file. Point it at a binary and ask: what is it, what does it hide, and what changed?

Offline · cross-platform · with evidence. It never runs the file.

MCP tool catalog license MIT

Built on REA (morluto/rea) · MIT


Most files are black boxes: an .exe you downloaded, a firmware dump, a driver, a game, an ECU calibration, an app update. BinSight opens the box — statically, on your own machine, without ever running the file — and answers the three questions that matter, in plain language and with the evidence to back them up.

You: What is this file? Is it hiding anything? And what changed vs the old version?

BinSight: PE/Windows x64, compiled with MSVC, UPX-packed (entropy 7.9),
          imports consistent with network + process injection, Authenticode
          signature present, and vs the previous build 3 regions changed —
          here are the offsets. All static, all offline, with evidence.

The three questions

🔎 What is it?

triage_file and inspect_executable read ELF, PE/Windows and Mach-O (and raw blobs) and tell you the type, architecture, entry point, imports/exports, sections, hashes, and a compiler/packer fingerprint — without starting Ghidra or IDA, on macOS, Windows or Linux.

🕵️ What does it hide?

detect_binary_toolchain, measure_binary_entropy, classify_import_capabilities, identify_crypto_constants, extract_binary_strings, inspect_code_signature and scan_embedded_content surface packing, high-entropy regions, imported capabilities (network, process, crypto…), IOC strings, embedded files, and whether a signature is real — reported as evidence and inference, never as a verdict.

🔁 What changed?

compare_binaries diffs any two files byte-for-byte and explains the change — which regions moved, what was zeroed or maxed out, the before/after values. Works on app updates, drivers, firmware and ECU calibration dumps alike. compare_executables adds import/export/section/hardening deltas for executables.

Related MCP server: REA

All 17 tools

Tool

What it answers

triage_file

One call: type, hashes, structure, entropy, packing, capabilities, signature, strings, next steps

generate_triage_report

A shareable Markdown triage report

compare_binaries

Diff any two files and explain what changed (firmware, ECU dumps, updates)

compare_executables

Diff two executables: imports, exports, sections, hardening, entropy

inspect_executable

Sections, imports, exports, libraries, symbols, entry point, overlay — ELF/PE/Mach-O

inspect_binary_hardening

checksec for every OS: PIE, canary, NX, RELRO, CFG, ASLR, hardened runtime

measure_binary_entropy

File / section / block Shannon entropy + chi-square

detect_binary_toolchain

Compiler, packer, installer, language (UPX, MSVC, PyInstaller, Go…)

extract_binary_strings

ASCII/UTF-16 strings classified into IOCs (URL, IP, path, registry…)

identify_crypto_constants

AES S-box, SHA/MD5, CRC32, ChaCha, curve parameters…

classify_import_capabilities

Capabilities inferred from imports ("consistent with", never a verdict)

scan_byte_patterns

Byte / hex-wildcard / text / regex search, no provider needed

compute_similarity_hashes

imphash, Rich hash, symhash, telfhash, ssdeep, TLSH

inspect_code_signature

Authenticode + Mach-O code signature — on any host

scan_embedded_content

binwalk-style embedded-file identification (offsets only)

generate_sbom

CycloneDX / SPDX component inventory from embedded metadata

recover_go_symbols

Function names from a stripped Go pclntab

Every result separates observations, inferences and unknowns, carries file offsets, and states its limitations. Detection only — nothing is unpacked, decrypted, cracked or executed.

Quickstart

npx binsight triage-file /path/to/file --json
npx binsight compare-binaries /path/to/old /path/to/new --json
npx binsight generate-triage-report /path/to/file --json

Register BinSight as an MCP server for your AI agent, then just ask it in plain language ("what is this file, what does it hide, what changed?"):

npx binsight setup

BinSight supports the same agents as REA — see supported agents; other clients can use manual MCP registration.

Verified against the reference tools

BinSight's parsers and hashes are checked against the tools analysts already trust: imphash matches pefile byte-for-byte, structure matches LIEF / readelf / otool, and hardening and packing results match checksec and Detect It Easy on a real corpus of ELF, PE and Mach-O binaries.

Documentation

Built on REA

BinSight builds on REA and adds the static intelligence suite above. REA is MIT-licensed; this project keeps that license and attribution. This is not an official REA release — for REA itself, go to morluto/rea.

License

MIT. See LICENSE. Portions © the REA authors.

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