# firmadyne/firmadyne

Platform for emulation and dynamic analysis of Linux-based firmware

Repository: https://github.com/firmadyne/firmadyne
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/firmadyne
Language: Shell
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Last push: 2024-07-21T00:21:54+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 32/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3852, "days_push": 774, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 2102, forks 367 (observed 2026-08-28T04:06:13.721293+00:00)

## What it is
FIRMADYNE is an automated, scalable platform for emulating and dynamically analyzing Linux-based embedded firmware using QEMU with instrumented kernels and an NVRAM emulation library. It includes firmware extraction, scraping from 40+ vendors, and scripted analyses such as web page enumeration, SNMP dumping, and known-vulnerability checks.

## Use cases
- emulate router firmware in qemu
- dynamically analyze iot device firmware
- extract filesystem and kernel from firmware images
- test firmware for known cves
- scrape firmware from vendor websites
- debug embedded linux firmware without hardware

## When to choose
- you need large-scale automated emulation of linux-based embedded firmware
- you want to run security analyses against router or iot firmware images
- you lack physical hardware for the target device

## When to avoid
- the firmware is not linux-based
- you need emulation of non-MIPS/ARM architectures
- you need a maintained tool with frequent updates

## Facets
- artifact type: framework
- maturity: maintenance
- function: security, vulnerability-scanning, simulation, testing, reverse-engineering
- domain: security, iot, embedded-systems, penetration-testing, developer-tools
- platform: python
- tags: firmware-emulation, qemu, embedded-firmware, dynamic-analysis, router-firmware, ndss-paper, mips, arm, nvram-emulation, linux, shell, docker

## Member repositories
- firmadyne/firmadyne (main) score 32

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:13.721293+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T02:54:16.474024+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/firmadyne/firmadyne (fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:13.721293+00:00, sha 49ced45c88f8)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.