IDA Pro Starter Training Goes On-Demand

Summary

LAUNCHING APRIL 2026

This 1-day course is ideal for beginner or first-time IDA users. In this course, you will receive a succinct introduction to the fundamental features of IDA Pro (9 series). Participants will become familiar with the most commonly used parts of the user interface and learn how to overcome challenges encountered during the reverse engineering process. The program will include both lectures and in-program demonstrations. Additionally, we will provide exercises for participants to solve during the course to deepen their understanding of the covered material.

Duration

Self-paced, ~5 hours

Delivery mode

On-demand

Level

Beginner

Availability

$ 349 VAT excl.

Session 1: IDA Overview and Navigation

Approx. 1.5h

IDA overview using 8 or 9 series
Loading files into IDA
- File format loader
- Target processor
- Auto analyzer
Main user interface
- Main menu
- Navigation bar
- Status indicator
- Analysis indicator
- Output window
- Command line interpreter
- Desktop configuration
- Command palette
- View synchronization

Disassembly View
- Text mode
- Graph mode
- Proximity mode
- Navigation
- Bookmarks
- Hints
- Address details window
Functions view
Pseudocode view
Hex view
Names view
Strings view
Imports view
Exports view
Segments view

Session 2: "I" in IDA is for Interactive

Approx. 2h

Editing data
- Converting bytes to data
- Builtin data types
- Data representation
- Strings
- Offsets
- Arrays
- Patching
Editing code
- Disassembler options
- Converting bytes to code
- Creating functions
- Editing functions

Editing pseudocode
- Renaming
- Setting and editing builtin data types
- Mapping and splitting variables
- Casts
Undo / Redo
Snapshots
Commenting

Session 3: The IDA Type System

Approx. 1.5h

Creating and Editing Types
- Standard Structures and Enums
- Creating Structures
- Editing Structures
- Unions
- Creating Enums
- Editing Enums
- Type libraries
- Importing/exporting types

Applying Types
- Applying types to data
- Applying types to code
- Applying types to pseudocode

Session 4: Various Useful IDA Tricks

Approx. 1h

IDA file system hierarchy
Using plugins
Decompiler tricks
- Decompile as call
- Skippable instructions
- Intrinsics
- Force decompilation
Working with more than one analysis target
Function recognition

Function identification
- Signatures
- Lumina
Architecture-specific tricks
String pools
Memory segments
Searching
- Byte patterns
- Wildcards
- Regular expressions

Prerequisites

Knowledge requirements

Computer Requirements

Basics in Computer Architecture, Operating Systems and Programming (basic C and Python programming)

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Coming Soon: IDA Pro Starter Training Goes On-Demand

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Session 1: IDA Overview and Navigation

Session 2: "I" in IDA is for Interactive

Session 3: The IDA Type System

Session 4: Various Useful IDA Tricks

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