State-of-the-art binary code analysis tools
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 […]
Although IDA was initially created for interactive usage and tries to automate as much of the tedious parts of RE as possible, it still cannot do everything for you and doing the still necessary work manually can take a long time. To alleviate this, IDA ships with IDC and IDAPython scripting engines, which can be […]
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 […]
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 delighted to announce the Hex-Rays plugin repository! As you know, plugins have always played a substantial role in IDA due to their ability to enrich its functionality. Most of these extensions are created by the users and resolve all sorts of practical cases. Until now, for the lack of a centralized “index”, finding […]
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 […]
As of the time of writing, IDA does not have a built-in plugin manager, so third-party plugins have to be installed manually. Installing into IDA directory The standard location for IDA plugins is the plugins directory in IDA’s installation (for example, C:\Program Files\IDA Pro 8.0\plugins on Windows). So this is the most common way of installing them […]
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 […]
