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
Read MoreScripting 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.
Read MoreIn 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.
Read MoreWe have the beta version of the ARM decompiler almost ready! Below is a short demo of how it works now: Your browser does not support the video element. Kindly update it to latest version. If you are interested in participating in the beta testing and you have an […]
Read MoreThe 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”. […]
Read MoreHave you ever tried to teach x86 assembly language programming to someone coming from high level language programming background and discovered that it was hard? Before being able to write a simple “Hello World” program one needs to know a fair deal about the x86 architecture, the assembler language and the operating system. Obviously this is […]
Read MoreIn 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)
Read MoreCustom 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 […]
Read MorePreview of the new cross-platform IDA Pro GUI
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