In the previous post we talked about the basic usage of selection in IDA. This week we’ll describe a few more examples of actions affected by selection. Firmware/raw binary analysis When disassembling a raw binary, IDA is not always able to detect code fragments and you may have to resort to trial & error for finding the code […]
Read MoreThis week’s post is about selecting items in IDA and what you can do with the selection. As a small change from the previous posts with mainly keyboard usage, we’ll also use the mouse this time! Actions and what they are applied to When an action is performed in IDA, by default it is applied only to the […]
Read MoreIn the previous post we described how to quickly invoke some of IDA’s commands using the keyboard. However, sometimes you may need to perform a specific action many times and if it doesn’t have a default hotkey assigned it can be tedious to click through the menus. Even the accelerator keys help only so much. […]
Read MoreToday, Hex-Rays is excited to launch a special blog series where Igor, one of the experts behind IDA, will provide useful tips and functionalities of IDA that are not always known or less obvious to its users. The first episode of this blog series covers the most useful keyboard shortcuts that will certainly speed up your IDA experience. So, we […]
Read MoreHex-Rays announces the release of Service Pack 2 (SP2) for IDA Pro 7.5. SP2 was introduced due to the major changes in Apple’s new versions of iOS and MacOS and their move to Apple Silicon. Hex-Rays team works constantly to improve the IDA experience and acts to ensure that IDA addresses its users’ feedback and properly […]
Read MoreWe have updated our iOS Debugging Tutorial. It has some new sections that should be of particular interest: “Debugging the DYLD Shared Cache” discusses how to combine IDA’s incremental dyldcache loading functionality with the iOS Debugger. “Debugging System Applications” is a concrete example of how to use IDA to debug an iOS system daemon on a jailbroken […]
Read MoreHex-Rays announces the release of Service Pack 1 (SP1) for IDA Pro 7.5. We recently launched IDA Pro v7.5 and IDA Home, Hex-Rays’ latest, affordable professional-grade solution tailored for reverse engineering hobbyists. We are glad to announce today the release of IDA 7.5 SP1. This service pack contains enhancements and fixes to the 7.5 version, partly […]
Read MoreA handful of our users have already requested information regarding the Qt 5.6.3 build, that is shipped with IDA 7.5. Configure options Here are the options that were used to build the libraries on: Windows: …\5.6.3\configure.bat “-nomake” “tests” “-qtnamespace” “QT” “-confirm-license” “-accessibility” “-opensource” “-force-debug-info” “-platform” “win32-msvc2015” “-opengl” “desktop” “-prefix” “C:/Qt/5.6.3-x64” Note that you will have to build with Visual […]
Read MoreHex-Rays announces the release of IDA Pro 7.5! IDA Pro is certainly the fastest and most reliable software solution to support professionals in their reverse-engineering work. Version 7.5 has been developed to improve the IDA experience further. It notably introduces the following features: Tree folder structure: you can now organize your work in a hierarchical tree […]
Read MoreHex-Rays announces the release of IDA Home. It is not often that we release a brand new product, so pardon our excitement. We used all the experience gained throughout […]
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