Igor’s Tip of the Week #169: Jumping to a file offset

Even though most manipulations with binaries can be done directly in IDA, you may occasionally need to use other tools. For example, Binwalk for basic firmware analysis, or a hex editor/viewer to find interesting patterns in the file manually.

Let’s say you found an interesting text or byte pattern at some offset in the file and want to look at it in IDA. In case of raw binary (e.g. a firmware) loaded at 0, the solution is simple: you can …

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