Tool
HexRaysPyTools
IDAPython plugin for IDA Pro's Hex-Rays decompiler that helps rebuild structures and classes from pseudocode. Its structure builder collects the fields a variable accesses within one function or, with deep scan, across the functions it is passed to, marks virtual tables, resolves conflicting fields and finalizes a C declaration applied to every scanned variable; a Classes view edits classes and their virtual functions, and a graph shows how local types relate. Pseudocode helpers recast and rename across assignments and calls, propagate names, rewrite out-of-bounds pointers as CONTAINING_RECORD for a containing structure, edit function signatures, rename functions from assert strings and untangle if statements.
- Targets
- Binary
- Category
- Native analysis tools
- Relationship
- Foundation tool
- Sources reviewed
Requirements & limits
- No commits since 2020-02-15 and no releases; the tags ida_6_8 and ida_7_2 mark older code. The README states support for IDA Pro 7.x with Python 2 or 3 and says nothing about later IDA releases; it notes that IDA 7.4 added an official implementation of its structure cross-references (Shift+X), describes Guessing Allocation as a very raw feature and marks its API as under construction.
- Needs IDA Pro with the Hex-Rays decompiler. Installation copies HexRaysPyTools.py and the HexRaysPyTools directory into IDA's plugins folder; settings live in IDADIR\cfg\HexRaysPyTools.cfg, and by default the cross-references collected during decompilation are stored in the database (store_xrefs). It works on the analyst's own IDA databases and type libraries.
- The repository has no license file and GitHub detects no license, so it grants no explicit reuse terms.
About this entry
The description was reviewed against primary sources.
Primary sources
- readme.md GitHub · igogo-x86/HexRaysPyTools · Revision b8ebf75
- HexRaysPyTools/settings.py#L11 GitHub · igogo-x86/HexRaysPyTools · Revision b8ebf75
- HexRaysPyTools GitHub · igogo-x86/HexRaysPyTools · Revision b8ebf75
- https://github.com/igogo-x86/HexRaysPyTools/wiki/History/a83ae2746d63e55aa215ffb595642163101d5003