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Does 'return' come back?

We all know that call invokes a function and ret returns to the caller. Alas, nothing is certain in ...

Double renaming

Quite often I have to revise old code in IDA Pro. Given its age, it happens almost every time a new ...

Heads and tails

Ero Carrera in his eye-catching blog talks about multi-chunk function related shortcomings in IDA ...

Loop colorizer

Sometimes I need to know if the current instruction sequence belongs to a loop or not. If it does, ...

ZERT patch

I think you have noticed that the site was down for a while. My web hoster again played the same ...

Confusing instruction

A few days ago I was working on the x86 IDA module. The goal was to have it recognize jump tables ...

Automated binary analysis woes

If you used IDA Pro for a while, you might have noted that it contents itself with simple things. ...

Simplex method in IDA Pro

In May a contest was open on Datarescue’s forum: