pax-utils (security audit tools for ELF binaries) pax-utils is a small set of utilities for peforming Q/A (mostly security) checks on systems (most notably, scanelf). It is focused on the ELF format, but does include a Mach-O helper too for OS X systems. You don't need PaX to use the pax-utils. In fact, the only thing they really have in common is that pax-utils was initially written to aid in deploying PaX systems.