CHAPTER 5

IDA Pro

In this chapter, we cover the following topics:

•   Introduction to IDA Pro for reverse engineering

•   Navigating IDA Pro

•   IDA Pro features and functionality

•   Debugging with IDA Pro

The disassembler and debugger known as Interactive Disassembler (IDA) Pro is a feature-rich, extensible, reverse engineering application owned and maintained by the company Hex-Rays in Belgium. It is a commercial product with alternative versions available such as IDA Home and IDA Free. The IDA family of disassemblers are actively maintained with a large number of freely available plug-ins and scripts provided by Hex-Rays and the user community. Hex-Rays also offers the Hex-Rays Decompiler, arguably the best decompiler available. Compared ...

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