We’re proud to release a new plug-in for IDA Pro users – SimplifyGraph – to help automate creation of groups of nodes in the IDA’s disassembly graph view. Code and binaries are available from the FireEye GitHub repo. Prior to this release we submitted it in the 2017 Hex-Rays plugin contest, where it placed third overall.

My personal preference is to use IDA’s graph mode when doing the majority of my reverse engineering. It provides a graphical representation of the control flow graph and gives visual cues about the structure of the current function that helps me better understand the disassembly.

Graph mode is great until the function becomes complex. IDA is often forced to place adjacent nodes relatively far apart, or have edges in the graph cross and have complex paths.

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