BAP (Binary Analysis Platform)

What BAP (Binary Analysis Platform) is

BAP (Binary Analysis Platform) is a free suite of utilities and libraries for analyzing programs in machine representation. It is intended for security analysis, program verification, and reverse engineering, and is available as a command-line framework or an embeddable library. Its `disassemble` command converts a binary into an architecture-independent representation, builds a control-flow graph, and applies user-defined analyses. BAP includes a standard interpreter, a microexecution interpreter, and a symbolic executor. Supported architectures are x86, x86-64, ARM, MIPS, and PowerPC, with plugins available to add architectures or analyses and change existing functionality without recompiling. Developers can use OCaml or Primus Lisp for analysis tasks, verification conditions, function models, and interaction with an SMT solver. BAP can be embedded in OCaml or other applications using C bindings; its Python support is described as minimal. Project materials document interfaces and plugins for IDA Pro, Ghidra, and LLVM. The default LLVM loader supports ELF, Mach-O, and COFF formats, including Windows PE. BAP is written in OCaml and distributed under the MIT License.