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In IDA Pro 6.1 we extended the Bochs debugger plugin to support debugging of 64bit code snippets. With IDA Pro 6.2 it will be possible to debug PE+ executables as well. Since the execution will be emulated inside Bochs, a 64bit operating system is not required and one could be equally running a 32 or […]
In a previous blog post we mentioned that it is possible to use IDA Pro with PySide (Python + Qt) after applying some minor code patches to PySide. For convenience purposes, we precompiled the PySide libraries that work with IDA Pro 6.0+ and Python 2.6/2.7. Below is a brief explanation on […]
In this blog post, we are going to illustrate how to use some of the new UI features introduced in IDA Pro 6.1 (embedded choosers, custom icons, etc…) by writing a VirusTotal reporting and file submission plugin for IDA Pro. The plugin will […]
With the upcoming IDA 6.1 it will be possible to create forms which host chooser controls. This feature will be available in the Qt and text version (not so in the VCL one).
Generally speaking most plugins for IDA can be written by using only the provided SDK. The API environment provided by IDA is vast and gives the plugin writer the capability to display graphical elements such as colored text views, graphs, forms and choosers. However, there are cases when this is not enough. In idag the developer […]
As many of you already know, IDA6 copies ship separately for Windows/Linux/Mac. Before we were giving the Linux/Mac versions for free because there was no GUI for them. Now we have full fledged GUIs for all platforms (and our development/techsupport costs increased because of that), so we separated the licenses. We could simply have increased […]
IDA Pro 6.0 implements a cross-platform UI with the use of Qt framework. The good thing about it is that plugin writers can also develop cross-platform UI directly with Qt. But what about script writers? In this blog post we are going to illustrate how to use PySide […]
Many times when debugging malware you discover that the malware does not import any function, replaces API names by hashes and tries to resolve the addresses by looking up which API name has the desired hash! In this blog post we are going to demonstrate how to use IDA Pro to solve this problem and uncover […]
In this blog post we are going to illustrate how to use the command line interpreter (CLI) interface from Python and how to write a basic command completion functionality for the Python CLI.
In this blog post we are going to demonstrate how the ‘-S’ and ‘-t’ switches (that were introduced in IDA Pro 5.7) can be used to run IDC, Python or other supported scripts from the command line as if they were standlone scripts and how to use the idascript utility