IDA Pro 5.7 highlights

We have released a IDA Pro 5.7 few days ago. The complete whatsnew can be found here. In this blog post we will highlight some of the major changes and additions of this release.

Extending IDC and IDAPython

Scripting with IDA Pro is very useful to automate tasks, write scripts or do batch analysis, nonetheless one problem is commonly faced by script writers: the lack of a certain function from the scripting language. In the blog post going to demonstrate how to extend both IDC and IDAPython to add new functions.

UI and scripting improvements

In addition to the previously covered features we’ve already added, we took the opportunity to get to the bottom of it and add even more scripting facilities where possible along with minor but convenient UI enhancements. In this blog entry, we will introduce some of the new features in the coming version of IDA Pro.

Kernel debugging with IDA Pro / Windbg plugin and VirtualKd

The other day we received an email support question asking if IDA Pro / Windbg debugger plugin works with VirtualKd, a tool that allows speeding up (up to 45x) Windows kernel module debugging using VMWare and VirtualBox virtual machines. After we installed and experimented with VirtualKd, our answer was “yes, certainly”. […]

Scriptable plugins

In IDA Pro 5.6 we added support for loader scripts, last month we added processor module scripts support, and now by adding support for scriptable plugins (for the next version of IDA) it will be possible to write all sort of IDA Pro extensions using scripting languages. (A plugin script written using IDC)

Using custom viewers from IDAPython

Custom viewers can be used to display arbitrary textual information and can be used in any IDA plugin.They are used in IDA-View, Hex-View, Enum and struct views and the Hex-Rays decompiler. In this blog entry we are going to write an ASM file viewer in order to demonstrate how to create a custom viewer and […]

Custom data types and formats

Another new feature that will be available in the upcoming version of IDA Pro is the ability to create and render custom data types and formats. (Embedded instructions disassembled and rendered along side with x86 code)

Scriptable Processor modules

One of the new features we are preparing for the next version of IDA is the ability to write processor modules using your favorite scripting language. After realizing how handy it is to write file loaders using scripting languages, we set out to making the same thing for processor modules. As an exercise for this […]

New IDC improvement in IDA Pro 5.6

Scripting with IDA Pro has always been a very handy feature, not only when used in scripts but also in expressions, breakpoint conditions, form fields, etc… In IDA Pro 5.6 we improved the IDC language and made it more convenient to use by adding objects, exceptions, support for strings with embedded zeroes, string slicing and references.