Open Plugin Architecture

IDA’s functionality can easily be extended by the use of programmable plug-ins. Plugins may be written to automate routine tasks, for example to enhance the analysis of hostile code or to add specific functionality to our disassembler. Plugins should be written in C++. They may be linked to hot keys or menu items and have full access to the IDA database and may examine or modify the program or use I/O functions. Our SDK contains

4 sample plugins
- a simple “hello world” type plugin.
- a sample processor extension plugin (adds 2 NEC V20 specific instructions to the 80×86 processor module).
- a sample pdb file loader ( as used by IDA itself ).
- a sample executable decryption plugin.
- a sample graphing plugin.
the source code to a 30+ processor modules!
the source code to a 20+ loaders
header files (almost 19.000 lines of heavily commented documentation to IDA’s exported interface).
import libraries for Borland C/C++ (32 & 64 bits), Microsoft Visual C++ 6 (32 & 64 bits), GNU C/C++ (32 & 64 bits), Watcom 11
if you received IDA as a download, the SDK download information can be found in the e-mail you have received.

Additional free plugins, from Ilfak’s blog:

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