The IDA Pro Book, 2nd Edition

Creating FLIRT Signature Files

As we discussed previously, it is simply impractical for IDA to ship with signature files for every static library in existence. In order to provide IDA users with the tools and information necessary to create their own signatures, Hex-Rays distributes the Fast Library Acquisition for Identification and Recognition (FLAIR) tool set. The FLAIR tools are made available on your IDA distribution CD or via download from the Hex-Rays website^[80] for authorized customers. Like several other IDA add-ons, the FLAIR tools are distributed in a Zip file. Hex-Rays does not necessarily release a new version of the FLAIR tools with each version of IDA, so you should use the most recent version of FLAIR that does not exceed your ...