Chrysalide is distributed in two different packs:
- a community version, OpenSourced and under GPLv3 license, for all those with a limited need of reverse engineering.
- an Enterprise version, with extended features and under proprietary license.
This page lists the main differences between these two versions:
| Community | Enterprise |
Architectures
For its early features, Chrysalide focuses on the embedded world.
The architecture scope is thus:
| Advanced Risc Machine - ARM v7 | partial | partial |
| Advanced Risc Machine - ARM v8 | planned | |
| Dalvik | supported | supported |
| Java Virtual Machine - JVM v5 | planned |
File formats
The following file formats are or will be supported:
| Android boot image - ANDROID! | supported | |
| Android Package - APK | supported | supported |
| Android binary XML - AXML | supported | |
| Dalvik Executable format - Dex | supported | supported |
| Executable and Linkable Format - ELF | supported | supported |
| Java | planned | |
| MobiCore Load Format - MCLF | partial | partial |
Debugging protocols
The dynamic analysis can rely on support for debugging protocols:
| Dalvik Debug Monitor - DDM | planned | |
| GNU Debugger - GDB | work in progress | work in progress |
| Java Debug Wire Protocol - JDWP | planned |
Obfuscators
Chrysalide tries to simplify the assembly code produced by some external tools.
| Allatori Java Obfuscator (demo) | supported |
Extra features
Chrysalide is also distinguished by more general features:
| Binary diffing | supported | |
| multi-threads disassembly | supported | supported |
| Python bindings | supported | supported |
| Linux syscalls documentation | supported | supported |
| Undo/redo operations in history | supported | supported |
| Zoom in the code areas | work in progress | work in progress |