State-of-the-art binary code analysis tools
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 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 […]
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 […]
Hex-Rays team is thrilled to announce the release of IDA version 8.0! As with every release, IDA Pro and IDA Home gained many new features and enhancements, including: Support for iOS16 and recent macOS releases Golang improvements: significantly improved support for Golang 1.17 and 1.18 binaries Better function discovery with the new “patfind” plugin FLIRT patterns directly from an IDA […]
This is a guest entry written by Elias Bachaalany. 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 him. ida-qscripts or QScripts is a productivity plugin for better/faster scripting and coding workflow/experience for IDA. IDA provides two […]
As part of the 7.7 release, IDA bundles a new C++ parser based on the libclang library from the LLVM project. In addition to that, we wrote a new command-line utility, which allows you to build custom type libraries from C/C++ codebases. (Note: this link is protected by the download area password, included in […]
