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 […]

The Hex-Rays plugin repository

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 […]

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 […]

Igor’s tip of the week #103: Sharing plugins between IDA installs

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 […]

What is QScripts?

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 […]