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HxD Hex Editor

by Maël Hörz · Freeware

85/100how this is calculated

Hex and Disk Editor

Record

Latest version
2.5
Release date
11 Feb 2021
Official page
https://mh-nexus.de/en/hxd/
Package identifier
MHNexus.HxD

Official downloads

These URLs are the ones Maël Hörz declares in its own manifest. We do not proxy or shorten them, and we do not host a copy.

Verify the file you downloaded

Run this against the file on disk. If the output does not match the hash below, the file is not what Maël Hörz published. Delete it.

Windows · PowerShell

Get-FileHash "HxDSetup.zip" -Algorithm SHA256

macOS · Linux

shasum -a 256 "HxDSetup.zip"

Expected output

5065041c7b03c24b9533a5b32b33db58f2b4924cd84bed41834ff2db51c1cb7c

Got a different hash, or one you cannot place? Paste it into the hash checker and it will tell you which program and version it belongs to, past releases included.

How we scored this 85 out of 100

SignalFindingPoints
SHA-256 hash published1 of 1 installers ship a SHA-256 hashWithout a published hash there is no way to prove the file you downloaded is the file the publisher built.30 / 30
Binary provenance1 on the publisher's own domainThe strongest signal against a repackaged installer: the file should come from the publisher, not from a mirror nobody vouches for.35 / 35
Served over HTTPS1 of 1 over HTTPSAn installer fetched over plain HTTP can be modified in transit.15 / 15
Release recencylast release about 67 months agoSoftware that has not shipped in years accumulates unpatched vulnerabilities.0 / 15
Licence declaredFreewareA declared licence tells you what you are actually allowed to do with the software.5 / 5

Opens 2 file types

Extensions HxD Hex Editor registers itself to handle.

Is HxD Hex Editor safe to download?

Yes, in the sense we can actually verify: the installer downloads from mh-nexus.de, which is a domain we have tied to Maël Hörz.

The installer on this page comes with the SHA-256 Maël Hörz declared, so you do not have to take our word for it: hash the file you downloaded and compare.

What this does not tell you is whether the software itself is any good, or whether you want what it does once installed. A publisher can ship something you would rather not run and the download is still authentic. We answer the question we can measure and leave the other one to you.

If Windows says “Windows protected your PC” when you run it, that is SmartScreen reporting reputation, not a malware verdict — it shows up on perfectly legitimate software from small publishers and on releases that are simply new. The reverse matters more: no warning does not mean the file was checked.

How the 85/100 score is calculated · why the source matters more than the reputation

Install HxD Hex Editor with winget

Windows ships with a package manager, and this program is in it. The identifier below is the one Microsoft's repository uses, which is also where the download URL and hash on this page come from.

Install

winget install --id MHNexus.HxD --exact

Upgrade later

winget upgrade --id MHNexus.HxD

Why --exact: without it winget matches on name as well as identifier, and a search that returns more than one package makes it stop and ask rather than install. Pinning the identifier is what makes the command safe to put in a script.

Not installing anything, or getting an error back? The commands that actually come up covers upgrading everything at once, what --include-unknown is for, and why winget can be missing from a machine that should have it.

Every version on record1

Every HxD Hex Editor version with a published manifest, newest first. The most recent ones are listed above with their file names and hashes.

  • 2.5

More programs we index

Not related to HxD Hex Editor — just other entries, each with its own official URL and published hash.

Where our data comes from

Windows manifest
github.com/microsoft/winget-pkgs/tree/master/manifests/m/MHNexus/HxD/2.5