Chapter 26. Additional Debugger Features

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Over the last two chapters, we have covered the majority of the debugger’s basic features including scripting debugger actions, as well as its usefulness in de-obfuscating code. In this chapter, we round out our discussion of the debugger by looking at remote debugging with IDA, the use of the Bochs x86 emulator[237] as a debugging platform, and the Appcall[238] feature that effectively extends IDA’s scripting capabilities to include any function defined with a process and its associated libraries.

Remote Debugging with IDA

All versions of IDA ship with server components designed to facilitate remote debugging ...

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