Encrypted or obfuscated code is frequently present in today’s hostile code exact distinction between code and data is an art rather than a science. Mere static disassembly does not tell the whole story. Virtually anything in the disassembly can be modified, manipulated, rearranged or redefined. Featuresīecause we know that one second of insight still beats hundred years of processing time, the IDA Disassembler offers as much interactivity as is possible. See this executive overview for a summary of its features and uses. IDA has become the de-facto standard for the analysis of hostile code, vulnerability research and COTS validation. He currently lives in Belgium with his wife and his three boys.The IDA Disassembler and Debugger is an interactive, programmable, extendible, multi-processor disassembler hosted on Windows, Linux, or Mac OS X. Guilfanov is also known for having released, on, a highly publicized unofficial fix for the Windows Metafile (WMF) vulnerability in Microsoft Windows operating system. He is the senior architect of several highly regarded software packages including the widely used IDA, a multi-platform, multi-processor, disassembler and debugger. Guilfanov, the founder and CEO of Hex-Rays SA, holds BSc in Mathematics from Moscow State University.

In the near future Hex-Rays SA expects to extend the role of its decompiler through the addition of several new algorithms and by offering a programmer SDK to its corporate customers.

Thanks to the speed and scalability of its core algorithms, Hex-Rays does not merely break new ground in the well known C/C++ decompilation problem: it lays foundations for future developments in the field of binary analysis. The unique Hex-Rays Decompiler, which has been developed in response to the need of hundreds of IDA users, is the fruit of more than ten years of proprietary research. Its first public product, the Hex-Rays Decompiler plugin for IDA, dramatically increases the productivity of IT security researchers involved in the analysis of real world C/C++ binaries. Founded in 2005, privately held, Belgium based, Hex-Rays SA focuses on the development of robust binary analysis tools for the IT security market.

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