Rafind2
Rafind2 is the command line fronted of the r_search library. Which allows you to search for strings, sequences of bytes with binary masks, etc
$ rafind2 -h
Usage: rafind2 [-mXnzZhqv] [-a align] [-b sz] [-f/t from/to] [-[e|s|S] str] [-x hex] -|file|dir ..
-a [align] only accept aligned hits
-b [size] set block size
-e [regex] search for regex matches (can be used multiple times)
-f [from] start searching from address 'from'
-h show this help
-i identify filetype (r2 -nqcpm file)
-j output in JSON
-m magic search, file-type carver
-M [str] set a binary mask to be applied on keywords
-n do not stop on read errors
-r print using radare commands
-s [str] search for a specific string (can be used multiple times)
-S [str] search for a specific wide string (can be used multiple times). Assumes str is UTF-8.
-t [to] stop search at address 'to'
-q quiet - do not show headings (filenames) above matching contents (default for searching a single file)
-v print version and exit
-x [hex] search for hexpair string (909090) (can be used multiple times)
-X show hexdump of search results
-z search for zero-terminated strings
-Z show string found on each search hit
That's how to use it, first we'll search for "lib" inside the /bin/ls binary.
$ rafind2 -s lib /bin/ls
0x5f9
0x675
0x679
...
$
Note that the output is pretty minimal, and shows the offsets where the string lib is found. We can then use this output to feed other tools.
Counting results:
$ rafind2 -s lib /bin/ls | wc -l
Displaying results with context:
$ export F=/bin/ls
$ for a in `rafind2 -s lib $F` ; do \
r2 -ns $a -qc'x 32' $F ; done
0x000005f9 6c69 622f 6479 6c64 .. lib/dyld........
0x00000675 6c69 622f 6c69 6275 .. lib/libutil.dyli
0x00000679 6c69 6275 7469 6c2e .. libutil.dylib...
0x00000683 6c69 6200 000c 0000 .. lib......8......
0x000006a5 6c69 622f 6c69 626e .. lib/libncurses.5
0x000006a9 6c69 626e 6375 7273 .. libncurses.5.4.d
0x000006ba 6c69 6200 0000 0c00 .. lib.......8.....
0x000006dd 6c69 622f 6c69 6253 .. lib/libSystem.B.
0x000006e1 6c69 6253 7973 7465 .. libSystem.B.dyli
0x000006ef 6c69 6200 0000 0000 .. lib......&......
rafind2 can also be used as a replacement of file to identify the mimetype of a file using the internal magic database of radare2.
$ rafind2 -i /bin/ls
0x00000000 1 Mach-O
Also works as a strings replacement, similar to what you do with rabin2 -z, but without caring about parsing headers and obeying binary sections.
$ rafind2 -z /bin/ls| grep http
0x000076e5 %http://www.apple.com/appleca/root.crl0\r
0x00007ae6 https://www.apple.com/appleca/0
0x00007fa9 )http://www.apple.com/certificateauthority0
0x000080ab $http://crl.apple.com/codesigning.crl0