Plugin focus: SK3wldbg

This is a guest entry written by Chris Eagle. His views and opinions are his own and not those of Hex-Rays. Any technical or maintenance issues regarding the code herein should be directed to the author. The SK3wldbg Plugin When I first started analyzing obfuscated code, I quite often wished that I could simply de-obfuscate the code […]

Plugin focus: Capa Explorer

This is a guest entry written by Mike Hunhoff, Moritz Raabe, and Willi Ballenthin from the Mandiant FLARE Team. Their views and opinions are their own and not those of Hex-Rays. Any technical or maintenance issues regarding the code herein should be directed to the authors. capa explorer: Focus Your Reverse Engineering Efforts in IDA Pro 

Hands-Free Binary Deobfuscation with gooMBA

The gooMBA plugin, as well as this blog post, was written by our intern Garrett Gu. You can view the plugin source on GitHub. gooMBA is maintained by Hex-Rays, and will be incorporated in the next IDA release. Hands-Free Binary Deobfuscation with gooMBA At Hex-Rays SA, we are constantly looking for ways to improve […]

Plugin focus: Diaphora

This is a guest entry written by Joxean Koret from Activision. His views and opinions are his own and not those of Hex-Rays. Any technical or maintenance issues regarding the code herein should be directed to the author. Diaphora: The most advanced Free and Open Source Binary Diffing Tool Diaphora is an Open Source IDA plugin […]

Styling IDA listings background with CSS

For most IDA widgets, a custom background was already possible using standard Qt stylesheets (examples, reference). But since the IDA 8.2 release you can also do it for disassembly listings! (and “Structures”, “Enums”, “Pseudocode”, …) To achieve this, you would typically want to define a new theme that extends an existing one and adds […]

Plugin focus: IPyIDA

This is a guest entry written by Marc-Étienne Léveillé. His views and opinions are his own and not those of Hex-Rays. Any technical or maintenance issues regarding the code herein should be directed to the author. IPyIDA – a better console for IDA Pro using IPython and Jupyter Notebook Unlike most plugins, IPyIDA is […]

IDA 8.2 released

We are excited to announce the release of IDA version 8.2! In this release, there are many new features and enhancements for IDA Pro, IDA Teams, and IDA Home, including: 32-bit support in IDA64 Processor modules improvements Swift picture_search plugin UI candy and more… See full updates here: https://hex-rays.com/products/ida/news/8_2/ How to request the new versions As usual, the new versions of IDA Pro and […]

Plugin focus: HRDevHelper

This is a guest entry written by Dennis Elser from Trenchant Advanced Research Center (formerly Azimuth Security). His views and opinions are his own and not those of Hex-Rays. Any technical or maintenance issues regarding the code herein should be directed to the author. HRDevHelper HRDevHelper is a decompiler plugin that takes advantage of […]

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 […]

IDA 8.1 released

Hex-Rays team is thrilled to announce the release of IDA version 8.1! As with every release, IDA Pro and IDA Home gained many new features and enhancements, including: Private Lumina server New icons Golang regabi support Sunsetting IDA for 32-bit binaries (IDA32) and more See full updates here: https://hex-rays.com/products/ida/news/8_1/ How to request the new versions As usual, the new versions of IDA Pro […]