IDAPerl

a perl interface for IDA

IDAPerl, is a plugin for IDA Pro, which adds perl scripting support to ida.

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source: here or zip archive
binary: idaperl-0.1-200805090919.zip
binary: idaperl-0.2-200805121128.zip
binary: idaperl-0.3-200805121829.zip
binary: idaperl-0.4-200806011131.zip
Author: Willem Jan Hengeveld itsme@xs4all.nl

history

version 0.1 - initial release
version 0.2 - simplified interface to IDC, now all IDC functions are implemented, now works on OSX, and probably other platforms too.
version 0.3 - fixed memory leak.
version 0.4 - redirecting stdout/stderr to ida window, added idaperl to several menu's, added 'autorun', options dialog. optionally using new interpreter for each script. syntax errors are now displayed in the ida window

requirements

this plugin is known to work with ida5.2, and activesync perl 5.8.8 other versions have not yet been tested.

make sure perl58.dll is in your searchpath.

install

install idaperl by unzipping the .zip file in your ida directory, it will put the plugin in the plugins subdirectory, and create a 'perl' subdir with perl modules.

be sure to delete old versions from the plugin directory

example

type 'alt-2' to get the idaperl window, and enter for example:

use strict;
use warnings;
use IDC;

sub test123 { Msg("test123 called\n"); }
DelHotkey("Shift-I");
AddHotkey("Shift-I", "test123");

click 'OK' now type 'shift-I' and you will see 'test123 called' be printed in the ida message window

other ida scripting extensions

also there are a ruby, a python, and an old perl scripting extension.

http://d-dome.net/idapython

http://www.wasm.ru/pub/23/files/perl_src.zip
by redplait, not updated since 2004, for perl5.5, ida4.7

ruby

future plans

provide UI to manage code snippets
provide UI to manage key bindings

provide several wrappers ( like the perl '-n' option ), for instance, the wrapper below would allow code to easily operate on the current, or selection

    use IDC;
    for (local $_=(SelBegin()!=BADADDR)?SelBegin():ScreenEA() ; 
                  (SelEnd()!=BADADDR)?$_<SelEnd():$_==ScreenEA() ; 
               $_=(SelEnd()!=BADADDR)?NextHead($_, SelEnd()):BADADDR)
    {
        # CODE
    }

add support to interact with ida, from a perl script running outside of ida.
create perl objects for ida items, like functions, segments, structs, etc.
build library of idaperl modules under idadir\plugins\idaperl
add method of interrupting a long running script: probably i would need to have the perlinterpreter execute in a different thread, while the ida-ui thread just handles the dialog box.
add option to convert .idc to .pl
hook ida notification points

issues in version 0.1, which were solved in 0.2

Message currently does not work, instead use Msg, which takes a single string as parameter.
to output formatted strings currently you would have to type:
Msg(sprintf("%08lx: %s\n", 123, 'abc'));
implement all remaining idc functions
not every function works, still need to do a lot of testing.
tst.ipl will give you an idea of what functions are known to work.
idc_perl.xs shows what functions have been implemented.
also all macro's defined in idc.idc have been implemented/defined here

issues in version 0.2, which were solved in 0.3

fix memory leaks

issues in version 0.3, which were solved in 0.4

now printing to STDOUT, and STDERR ( using 'print', warn, etc. ) is redirected to the ida message log
optionally support perl threads, by serializing access to ida.
added 'run perl file', 'reset perl', 'about', 'options' menu entries
implemented autorun
added options dialog
optionally using new interpreter for each manually entered perl script.
IDA.pm, containing some iteration helpers.
bugfix: idc function calls no longer destroy regex results like '$1'
bugfix: now syntax errors are displayed correctly