Category Archives: IDAPython

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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Calling IDA APIs from IDAPython with ctypes

Posted on April 5, 2012 by Igor Skochinsky

IDAPython provides wrappers for a big chunk of IDA SDK. Still, there are some APIs that are not wrapped because of SWIG limitations or just because we didn’t get to them yet. Recently, I needed to test the get_loader_name() API … Continue reading →

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Precompiled PySide binaries for IDA Pro

Posted on May 18, 2011 by Elias Bachaalany

In a previous blog post we mentioned that it is possible to use IDA Pro with PySide (Python + Qt) after applying some minor code patches to PySide. For convenience purposes, we precompiled the PySide libraries that work with IDA … Continue reading →

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VirusTotal plugin for IDA Pro

Posted on April 21, 2011 by Elias Bachaalany

In this blog post, we are going to illustrate how to use some of the new UI features introduced in IDA Pro 6.1 (embedded choosers, custom icons, etc…) by writing a VirusTotal reporting and file submission plugin for IDA Pro. … Continue reading →

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