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Topic created on: December 28, 2006 06:26 CST by vinnie12 .

Can someone please help me and explain how do you unpack a packed file in IDA. I know how to unpack in Olly but IDA does not let me get pass exceptions that are thrown up in the unpacking process. Please enlighten.

  aeppert     December 28, 2006 09:19.32 CST
http://hexblog.com/2005/11/stealth_plugin_1.html

Is a rather solid place to start reading.

  ryanlrussell     December 28, 2006 12:03.52 CST
IDA will let you pass the exceptions.  Check under debugger options.  It's just not as handy, and you don't get to easily decide on a per-exception basis.

  vinnie12     December 28, 2006 16:02.38 CST
Cool. Thank you for your valued advice. Much appreciated.

  codepupil     December 29, 2006 10:32.18 CST
you could also use Chris Eagle's X86Emu
http://ida-x86emu.sourceforge.net/
http://www.blackhat.com/presentations/bh-usa-04/bh-us-04-eagle.pdf

  sa7ori     January 5, 2007 13:27.16 CST
uhm. the question is really generic. Packers/Protectors can be pretty clever is there something specific you are running into thats preventing you from doing what you want?

  igorsk     January 7, 2007 20:08.09 CST
Check also this.

  nico     February 21, 2007 18:40.06 CST
Some previous versions of IDA Pro Debugger didn't handle Exceptions very well, so make sure to run recent IDA Pro.

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