About

Hobbits was developed at Mahlet in 2019 as an integrated data analysis tool. It was open-sourced and is now (passively) maintained by Adam and anyone who wants to contribute. Join the Discord server if you want to ask questions, contribute, or just chat about binary analysis tools.

Documentation

The documentation is available at mahlet-inc.github.io.

Pre-built binaries

There are pre-built binaries of the latest release on the GitHub releases page.

Using Hobbits

Read the user guide in the documentation and/or watch this walkthrough video

Building from source

• Install the required build tools and development libraries.

Ubuntu 22.04 LTS example:

sudo apt-get install -y patchelf libusb-1.0-0-dev libpcap-dev qtbase5-dev qtchooser qt5-qmake qtbase5-dev-tools python3-dev ninja-build cmake g++

• Build with CMake

cmake -G Ninja -B build .
cmake --build build

If building using the bundled pffft, ensure you clone or checkout with the --recurse-submodules flag.

Adding plugins

Read the plugin developer guide in the documentation.