Summary
IDA plug-ins are the logical next step when scripting fails to meet your needs for extending IDA’s capabilities, though with the advent of scripted plug-ins, you may find yourself resisting the urge to dive into the SDK. Additionally, unless you are faced with the challenge of reverse engineering a file format that is unknown to IDA or a machine language for which IDA has no processor module, plug-ins may be the only type of IDA extension that you ever feel the need to explore. Nonetheless, in the next two chapters, we continue to explore the capabilities offered by IDA’s SDK by looking at the other types of modules that can be constructed for use with IDA: loaders and processor modules.
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