Category Archives: Programming

Loading your own modules from your IDAPython scripts with idaapi.require()

Posted on May 6, 2013 by arnaud

TL;DR If you were using import to import your own “currently-in-development” modules from your IDAPython scripts, you may want to use idaapi.require(), starting with IDA 6.5. Rationale When using IDAPython scripts, users were sometimes facing the following issue Specifically: User … Continue reading →

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Recon 2012: Compiler Internals

Posted on June 22, 2012 by Igor Skochinsky

This year I again was lucky to present at Recon in Montreal. There were many great talks as usual. I combined the topic of my last year’s talk on C++ reversing and my OpenRCE article on Visual C++ internals. New … Continue reading →

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Code viewer, forms & timers

Posted on October 20, 2011 by Daniel Pistelli

In this post I’ll present some new things in IDA 6.2. There’s a new control, the code viewer, some additions to forms and the introduction of timers to discuss. All these new features have been exposed to the SDK, so … Continue reading →

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When choosers invade forms

Posted on February 18, 2011 by Daniel Pistelli

With the upcoming IDA 6.1 it will be possible to create forms which host chooser controls. This feature will be available in the Qt and text version (not so in the VCL one).

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IDA & Qt: Under the hood

Posted on January 4, 2011 by Daniel Pistelli

Generally speaking most plugins for IDA can be written by using only the provided SDK. The API environment provided by IDA is vast and gives the plugin writer the capability to display graphical elements such as colored text views, graphs, … Continue reading →

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Calculating API hashes with IDA Pro

Posted on October 9, 2010 by Elias Bachaalany

Many times when debugging malware you discover that the malware does not import any function, replaces API names by hashes and tries to resolve the addresses by looking up which API name has the desired hash! In this blog post … Continue reading →

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Book Review: The Art of Assembly Language, 2nd Edition

Posted on April 28, 2010 by Elias Bachaalany

Have you ever tried to teach x86 assembly language programming to someone coming from high level language programming background and discovered that it was hard? Before being able to write a simple “Hello World” program one needs to know a … Continue reading →

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Casts are bad

Posted on July 29, 2009 by Ilfak Guilfanov

Halvar and Dennis Elser recently blogged about a serious vulnerability in the ATL libraries. A few days ago, Microsoft released an emergency “out-of-band” patch. Yes, the bug was that nasty, and since it is in a library, many MS Windows … Continue reading →

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Never say never

Posted on September 12, 2007 by Ilfak Guilfanov

I never thought that I’d be directly hit by an IE bug. However, it happened today. This page: http://www.hex-rays.com/compare.shtml does not render correctly in IE7. I tried everything, got rid of all validator complaints, rearranged the code, played with the … Continue reading →

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Finally, good STL replacement?

Posted on May 19, 2007 by Ilfak Guilfanov

A quite interesting document for everyone who programs in C++: http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2007/n2271.html I’m even tempted to switch to it when/if it becomes available.

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