RetDec IDA plugin

RetDec plugin for IDA (Interactive Disassembler).

The plugin is compatible with the following IDA versions: 7.x. The plugin does NOT work with IDA 6.x, or freeware version of IDA 7.0. The plugin binary itself is 64-bit, but at the moment, it supports only 32-bit address space. I.e. it works in ida, not ida64, and can decompile only 32-bit binaries.

Installation and Use

Currently, we support only Windows and Linux.

Windows

1. Either download and unpack a pre-built package from the following list, or build and install the RetDec IDA plugin by yourself (the process is described below):

   • Windows - for 64-bit IDA (v0.7)

2. Follow the user guide (user_guide.pdf) that is part of the downloaded package, or use the current version from this repository.

Linux

1. Either download and unpack a pre-built package from the following list, or build and install the RetDec IDA plugin by yourself (the process is described below):

   • Linux - for 64-bit IDA (v0.7)

2. Follow the user guide (user_guide.pdf) that is part of the downloaded package, or use the current version from this repository.

Build and Installation

Requirements

Note: These are requirements to build the RetDec IDA plugin, not to run it. See our User Guide for information on plugin installation, configuration, and use.

• A compiler supporting C++14
  • On Windows, only Microsoft Visual C++ is supported (version >= Visual Studio 2015).
• CMake (version >= 3.6)
• IDA SDK (version == 7.0)

Process

• Clone the repository:
  • git clone https://github.com/avast-tl/retdec-idaplugin.git
• Linux:
  • cd retdec-idaplugin
  • mkdir build && cd build
  • cmake .. -DIDA_SDK_DIR=<path>
  • make
  • make install (if IDA_PATH was set, see below)
• Windows:
  • Open a command prompt (e.g. C:\msys64\msys2_shell.cmd from MSYS2)
  • cd retdec-idaplugin
  • mkdir build && cd build
  • cmake .. -DIDA_SDK_DIR=<path> -G<generator>
  • cmake --build . --config Release -- -m
  • cmake --build . --config Release --target install (if IDA_PATH was set, see below)
  • Alternatively, you can open retdec-idaplugin.sln generated by cmake in Visual Studio IDE.

You must pass the following parameters to cmake:

• -DIDA_SDK_DIR=</path/to/idasdk> to tell cmake where the IDA SDK directory is located.
• (Windows only) -G<generator> is -G"Visual Studio 14 2015 Win64" for 64-bit build using Visual Studio 2015. Later versions of Visual Studio may be used. Only 64-bit build is supported.

You can pass the following additional parameters to cmake:

• -DIDA_PATH=</path/to/ida> to tell cmake where to install the plugin. If specified, installation will copy plugin binary into IDA_PATH/plugins, and content of scripts/idc directory into IDA_PATH/idc. If not set, installation step does nothing.
• -DRETDEC_IDAPLUGIN_DOC=ON to enable the user-guide target which generates the user guide document (disabled by default, the target needs to be explicitly invoked).

User Guide

The User Guide in a PDF form is located in doc/user_guide/user_guide.pdf.

You can build your own guide by enabling and invoking the user-guide target:

• cmake .. -DRETDEC_IDAPLUGIN_DOC=ON
• Linux: make user-guide
• Windows: cmake --build . --config Release --target user-guide
• Requires LaTeX, LaTeX packages, and related tools.
• The resulting PDF will overwrite the original user_guide.pdf in doc/user_guide.

License

Copyright (c) 2017 Avast Software, licensed under the MIT license. See the LICENSE file for more details.

RetDec IDA plugin uses third-party libraries or other resources listed, along with their licenses, in the LICENSE-THIRD-PARTY file.

Contributing

See RetDec contribution guidelines.