IDA: What’s new in 5.7

The IDA Disassembler and debugger is a multi-processor disassembler and debugger hosted on the Windows, Linux and Mac OS X Platforms.

IDA Pro 5.7 highlights

We have released a IDA Pro 5.7 few days ago. The complete whatsnew can be found here. In this blog post we will highlight some of the major changes and additions of this release.

Driver dispatch-table viewer

With IDA, one can use the command line interface (CLI) not only to type scripting related commands but also to send debugger specific commands to the current debugger plugin. Although the topic mentions device drivers, you do not have to know much about drivers to learn something new from this post.

Kernel debugging with IDA

When IDA introduced debugging facilities years ago, the task of analyzing hostile code became more enriched: no more looking at static code and figuring out what it does, instead just run the malware in a virtual machine and debug it remotely, even debug just a small code […]

Welcome to IDA 7.7!

IDA 7.7 Highlights iOS15 and macOS 12 support Apple has made major changes to the internal format of core OS files. In particular, the DYLD Shared Cache (DSC) has been split into multiple parts. Our Mach-O loader and the helper DSCU plugin have been updated to handle this seamlessly. We have also updated our iOS and Mac […]

Our journey

About us Our journey Our journey Thirty years ago IDA relesed its first version. That’s how it began. Background The history of Hex-Rays is closely connected to that of our flagship product, IDA Pro. In the early 1990’s, DOS was the most popular OS for PCs which were majorly 8086 with occasional 80286 (80386 was […]

IDA: celebrating 30 years of binary analysis innovation

Today, IDA turns thirty years old. In commemoration of the anniversary we’ll describe the beginnings and major milestones of the epic journey. Background In the early 1990’s, DOS was the most popular OS for PCs which were majorly 8086 with occasional 80286 (80386 was still very expensive). Typical PC had at most 1MB of RAM leaving little […]

Solutions

Solutions Hex-Rays tools are used to solve critical problems in the software industry. […]