dennydai / headless-ida

Run IDA scripts headlessly.

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IDA-Headless .. Windows ?

I'm trying to run IDA-Headless on a windows environment and it fails to start . Any idea ?

C:\Program Files\IDA Pro 7.7>headless-ida ida64.exe "C:\Users\me\Desktop\IDAPYTHON\sample.exe"
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "c:\users\me\appdata\local\programs\python\python39\lib\runpy.py", line 197, in _run_module_as_main
return _run_code(code, main_globals, None,
File "c:\users\me\appdata\local\programs\python\python39\lib\runpy.py", line 87, in run_code
exec(code, run_globals)
File "C:\Users\me\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python39\Scripts\headless-ida.exe_main.py", line 7, in
File "c:\users\me\appdata\local\programs\python\python39\lib\site-packages\headless_ida\cli.py", line 21, in headlessida_cli
headlessida = HeadlessIda(args.idat_path, args.binary_path)
File "c:\users\me\appdata\local\programs\python\python39\lib\site-packages\headless_ida\client.py", line 45, in init
raise Exception(
Exception: IDA failed to start: return code 1
=============== STDOUT ===============
=============== STDERR ===============

Support for pre-existing databases

This seems to require loading a binary directly into IDA, I am making this assumption based off the mandatory -o and -P+ flags.

Is there a way to just load an existing database, query information off it, and do not flush database content to disk?
Additionally, is there a way to initialize HeadlessIda without passing any binary paths provided there's a server running and we know the port?

Thank you!

HEADLESS_IDA Windows Server

Sorry just noticed the normal python standalone module works but when running through the server getting same Exception,.

Cannot load a file with HeadlessIda() after the first

Hello,

I was thinking of using this module to automate disassembling multiple files with the same idapython code.
However it seems that loading a file using HeadlessIda() constructor has no effect beyond the first call.

The issue can be reproduced with the following piece of code:

import os
import sys

# Initialize HeadlessIda
from headless_ida import HeadlessIda

IDA64 = "/home/myhome/idapro-7.5/ida64"
headlessida = HeadlessIda(IDA64, "")  # run on empty file, needed for initialization to load ida imports
# Import IDA Modules (make sure you have initialized HeadlessIda first)
import ida_nalt

def idapython_run_on_file(file_path):
    headlessida = HeadlessIda(IDA64, file_path)
    print("Loading", file_path)
    if os.path.basename(ida_nalt.get_input_file_path()) != os.path.basename(file_path):
        print("ERROR! file", ida_nalt.get_input_file_path(), "loaded instead of", file_path)
        sys.exit(1)
    headlessida.conn.close()

if __name__ == "__main__":
    files_to_analyze = ["/usr/bin/ls", "/usr/bin/cat"]

    for f in files_to_analyze:
        idapython_run_on_file(f)

Which outputs

Loading /usr/bin/ls
Loading /usr/bin/cat
ERROR! file /usr/bin/ls loaded instead of /usr/bin/cat

Interrestingly if the script is run a second time, the output is now

Loading /usr/bin/ls
ERROR! file /usr/bin/cat loaded instead of /usr/bin/ls

So there seems to be some sort of cache used by Ida that prevent loading new files (that need to be flushed somehow?), but i could not find out the exact cause of the issue...

Decompilation failed: ffffffffffffffff

HI there hope you are doing well

i wan to decomplie functions but i get error "Decompilation failed: ffffffffffffffff".
i run the same script in IDA PRO and it works, but it does not work with headless ida.

Thanks

read .pdb file beside exe file

Hi there i hope you are doing well
is there a way that i can read .pdb file beside .exe file?

Has some way to load python3 plugin in headless-ida?

I want to use headless-ida to auto load a file, then exec ida pro python3 plugin
i find “idaapi.load_and_run_plugin” can load C/C++ plugin but cann't load python3 script plugin

is there a way to load idb file

so it does not have to reanalyisis every time

OPs, My bad