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Igor’s Tip of the Week #152: Force-creating functions
Aug. 11, 2023, 4:21 p.m. | MalBot
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Occasionally, especially when working with embedded firmware or obfuscated code, you may see an error message when trying to create a function (from context menu or using P hotkey):
There can be multiple reasons for it, for example:
- some code has been incorrectly converted to data and the execution flows into it;
- the function calls a non-returning function which hasn’t been marked as such, so IDA thinks that the execution flows into the following data or undefined bytes;
- the function …
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