The Official Radare2 Book

radare2 is implemented on top of a bunch of libraries, almost every of those libraries support plugins to extend the capabilities of the library or add support for different targets.

This section aims to explain what are the plugins, how to write them and use them

Types of plugins

$ ls libr/*/p | grep : | awk -F / '{ print $2 }'

anal # analysis plugins

asm # assembler/disassembler plugins

bin # binary format parsing plugins

bp # breakpoint plugins

core # core plugins (implement new commands)

crypto # encrypt/decrypt/hash/...

debug # debugger backends

egg # shellcode encoders, etc

fs # filesystems and partition tables

io # io plugins

lang # embedded scripting languages

parse # disassembler parsing plugins

reg # arch register logic

Listing plugins

Some r2 tools have the -L flag to list all the plugins associated to the functionality.

rasm2 -L # list asm plugins

r2 -L # list io plugins

rabin2 -L # list bin plugins

rahash2 -L # list hash/crypto/encoding plugins

There are more plugins in r2land, we can list them from inside r2, and this is done by using the L suffix.

Those are some of the commands:

L # list core plugins

iL # list bin plugins

dL # list debug plugins

mL # list fs plugins

ph # print support hash algoriths

You can use the ? as value to get the possible values in the associated eval vars.

e asm.arch=? # list assembler/disassembler plugins

e anal.arch=? # list analysis plugins

Notes

Note there are some inconsistencies that most likely will be fixed in the future radare2 versions.