Igor’s Tip of the Week #124: Scripting examples

Although IDA was initially created for interactive usage and tries to automate as much of the tedious parts of RE as possible, it still cannot do everything for you and doing the still necessary work manually can take a long time. To alleviate this, IDA ships with IDC and IDAPython scripting engines, which can be used for automating some repetitive tasks. But it can be difficult to know where to start, so let’s see where you can find some examples …

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