Get the assembly instruction of that address.
Hence, based on nop(), the current cursor location’s instruction will become a NOP instruction, change the instruction into code, (MakeCode() is the same as pressing hotkey ‘c’ in IDA), before jumping to the next instruction.
#IDA PRO JUMP LINE CODE#
When “Ctrl-Shift-Alt-J” hotkeys are all pressed, nop() will be call and the code inside the function will be executed. Idaapi.add_hotkey(“Ctrl-Shift-Alt-J”, nop) This helps to call the function that was passed to idaapi.add_hotkey() as a parameter when that hotkey was pressed. Void idaapi.add_hotkey(string hotkey, string function_name): Instruction at that address will become a NOP instruction if the byte of an instruction is 0x90, it is a NOP instruction. Will return if it is successful.Ĭhanges the byte at the address to value (decimal base). Jump to the next defined instruction or data. Similar to NextHead(), the function does the opposite which it gets the address of the previous defined instruction or data based on the address you input as an argument to PrevHead(). Gets the address of the next defined instruction or data based on the address you input as argument to NextHead(). This in-built function allows you to get the text representation of the type of the instruction at that address. Hence, to obtain the same value you see in your IDA, you have to convert it into a hex base. However, note that this function returns a long value, which is a decimal base. This is a build-in function that allows you to get the address of where the current cursor is. Below is an example of its usage.Īlternatively, you can do a usual Python print message method like how you normally code in python using print. Do take note that you must include semi colon to end that statement cause it is not a native Python’s statement. Just like in C language and IDC, python in IDA allows you to print messages using the same format. Let use see some of IDA’s in-built functions we can use to assist our reverse engineering. Today we will be talking about the basics of IDA Pro’s Python scripting. You can see the new function names for them here. The functions are still the same but with a new name. Note: Some of the functions here are no longer applicable to IDA version 7.4 and above. Do comment on any errors I made and I will edit the post to correct them. I would like to apologize if there are any mistakes as I am still learning. Today’s post is about some notes that I write down regarding IDA Python Scripting which I hope it benefits others and also a place for me to refer to in the future.