Identify the porcessor type of a binary

Question

There are different ways to identify the processor type such as using IDA or file command in Linux. But sometimes the processor type is not detected by these tools. Besides I do not have the correct processor type of the binary. Is there any way to detect the correct type of processor?

Answer 1

you might try cpu_rec, it claims to be able to identify a wide variety of architectures by analyzing the raw binary data.
According to cpu_rec github repository : Known architectures in the default corpus 68HC08 68HC11 8051 Alpha ARcompact ARM64 ARMeb ARMel ARMhf AVR AxisCris Blackfin Cell-SPU CLIPPER CompactRISC Cray Epiphany FR-V FR30 FT32 H8-300 HP-Focus HP-PA i860 IA-64 IQ2000 M32C M32R M68k M88k MCore Mico32 MicroBlaze MIPS16 MIPSeb MIPSel MMIX MN10300 Moxie MSP430 NDS32 NIOS-II OCaml PDP-11 PIC10 PIC16 PIC18 PIC24 PPCeb PPCel RISC-V RL78 ROMP RX S-390 SPARC STM8 Stormy16 SuperH TILEPro TLCS-90 TMS320C2x TMS320C6x V850 VAX Visium WE32000 X86-64 X86 Xtensa Z80 #6502#cc65