Recent Updates

May 22, 2013 — Preview 5 of the SWF Investigator is now available. This adds support for new SWF tags and contains bug fixes.

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Perform quick, comprehensive, analysis of SWF applications

Adobe® SWF Investigator is the only comprehensive, cross-platform, GUI-based set of tools, which enables quality engineers, developers and security researchers to quickly analyze SWF files to improve the quality and security of their applications. With SWF Investigator, you can perform both static and dynamic analysis of SWF applications with just one toolset. SWF Investigator lets you quickly inspect every aspect of a SWF file from viewing the individual bits all the way through to dynamically interacting with a running SWF.

SWF Investigator Features

From a static perspective, you can disassemble ActionScript 2 (AS2) and ActionScript 3 (AS3) SWFs, view SWF tags and make binary changes to SWF files. SWF Investigator also lets you view associated information, including local shared objects (LSOs) and per site settings.

From a dynamic perspective, you can call functions within the SWF, load the SWF in various contexts, communicate via local connections and send messages to Action Message Format (AMF) endpoints in order to test more effectively.

SWF Investigator contains an extensible fuzzer for SWF applications and AMF services, so you can search for common Web application attacks. This toolset also provides a variety of utilities including encoders and decoders for SWF data, as well as a basic compiler for testing small pieces of ActionScript code.

Additional Benefits

SWF Investigator is the only application of its kind that's built on Adobe AIR – a versatile runtime that supports ActionScript, the language used to create SWF applications. This allows for native interaction between the SWF Investigator and the SWF application. Using ActionScript also makes the source code of the tool more intuitive for SWF developers.

SWF Investigator has the ability to auto-update, so you don't need to worry about whether or not you have the most current version.

Since it's an open source AIR application, SWF Investigator can be modified to fit your environment, and it is cross-platform.

Read the Introducing Adobe SWF Investigator article for additional information