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Executive summary

Static reverse-engineering in IDA can often be problematic. Certain values are calculated at run time, which makes it difficult to understand what a certain basic block is doing. If you try to perform dynamic analysis by debugging a piece of malware, the malware will often detect it and start behaving differently. Today, Cisco Talos is releasing the 1.0 beta version of Dynamic Data Resolver (DDR) — a plugin for IDA that makes reverse-engineering malware easier. DDR is using instrumentation techniques to resolve dynamic values at runtime from the sample. For the 1.0 release, we have fixed a couple of bugs, ported it to the latest IDA version, added multiple new features, plus a new installer script that automatically resolves all dependencies.

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Talos Group

Talos Security Intelligence & Research Group