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Ghidra Software Reverse-Engineering for Beginners - Second Edition
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Ghidra Software Reverse-Engineering for Beginners - Second Edition

by David Álvarez Pérez, Ravikant Tiwari
January 2025
Intermediate to advanced
446 pages
10h 1m
English
Packt Publishing
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11

Developing Ghidra Plugins

In this chapter, we will dig into the details of Ghidra plugin development, as introduced in Chapter 4, Using Ghidra Extensions. Throughout this chapter, you will learn how to implement your own plugins in order to arbitrarily extend Ghidra’s features.

We will start by providing an overview of some existing plugins so that you can explore some ideas from other developers that may inspire you. Next, we will analyze the source code of the plugin skeleton included with Ghidra and available from Eclipse when creating a new plugin.

Finally, we will review a Ghidra plugin example based on the skeleton mentioned previously. This will allow us to dig into the details of implementing a new GUI docking window by adding components ...

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