An overview of the makesig plugin

makesig plugin overview The makesig plugin was introduced in the IDA 8.4 release, and it is a convenient tool for generating FLIRT signatures from a current database. As you probably already know, FLIRT stands for Fast LibrarybIdentification and Recognition Technology, allowing IDA to recognize standard library functions generated by supported compilers. This technology improves […]

The IDA patfind plugin

The IDA patfind plugin Just raw binary data at address 0x00000AC While IDA excels at extracting useful information from all sorts of binary files, it may happen that some unstructured binary files (e.g., firmwares, raw memory dumps, …) throw it off the rails, and the user needs to kickstart autoanalysis by figuring out some sort of […]