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Collaborative reverse engineering plugin for IDA Pro. Latest version, including IDA 7.0 support, is not back ward compatible with earlier versions. Substantial changes have been made to the protocol and database.
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/* IDA Pro Collaboration/Synchronization Plugin Copyright (C) 2018 Chris Eagle <cseagle at gmail d0t com> Copyright (C) 2018 Tim Vidas <tvidas at gmail d0t com> This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA */ Version 1.0.0 BACKGROUND: IdaPro has an event notification mechanism that plugins may utilize to be notified of many different types of changes being made to a database. The primary idea behind CollabREate is to hook these change notifications and broadcast changes to a central database server that records each change and forwards the associated change parameters to other interested users working on the same binary file. The theory being that one user's changes will be applied to a second user's database effectively allowing multiple users to simultaneously edit and annotate their databases. Please not that no single master copy of a particular IDB is maintained anywhere. A central database that records all events generated by all registered users is the only record of changes. It is entirely possible that the state of two databases diverges if one user were to make modifications without publishing those modifications to the database server. A major difficulty in this approach arises from the manner in which Ida notifications are generated. Because of the manner in which the Ida auto analysis subsystem operates, what appears to be a single action to the user may in fact translated into many (tens, hundreds, or even thousands) individual notification messages which all get pushed to the database. This makes conflict resolution between users and events extremely difficult because it is virtually impossible to associate a specific notification message with a specific user action. In fact some notification messages may, at first glance seem entirely unrelated to the user action which resulted in the generation of those notifications. Another challenge that arises is to supress the generation of duplicate notifications when processing incoming notifications. The current version of CollabREate simply de-registers itself for notifications while applying any changes indicated by each incoming message. This seems to work well unless the incoming messages results in the generation of more than one additional notification in the receiving IDB. In such cases, it is extremely difficult to determine when the last notification associated with the application of a newly received message has be generated, and therefore difficult to determine exactly when to re-register for receipt of local notifications. This is suspected to be one of the primary causes of a CollabREate database getting flooded with notifications and associated IDBs diverging in state. In practice, this problem seems to arise from actions that generate large numbers of notifications such as undefining large blocks of code or data or patching large numbers of bytes. RELEASE NOTES version 1.0.0 Removed all Qt dependeicies, changed to use IDA API user interface functions. Notification protocol completely changed from a binary protocol to a json based protocol. Server and database updated accordingly. Support for IDA versions 6.5 through 7.0, older version no longer supported. Binaries now land in bin directory RELEASE NOTES version 0.4.0 Removed dependency on QtNetwork. Reworked asynchronous networking for IDA versions 5.5 and later to make use of the IDA SDK execute_sync function. Updated MSVC build files so that a single build file accomodates multiple versions of IDA. RELEASE NOTES version 0.3.0 This version of the plugin is NOT compatible with older (< 0.3.0) collabreate databases. This is a result of the addtion of 64 bit support. If you need to use old databases, then you should continue to use version 0.2.0. We may publish an upgrade utility that will upgrade 0.2.0 databases to 0.3.0 databases. For the purposes of this discussion we are talking about the SQL database that stores all of the IDA update notifications. BUILDING THE PLUGIN The IDA Pro plugin requires the IDA Pro SDK, which is distributed along with Pro. You need the version of the SDK that matches the version of IDA with which you intend to use the plugin. First you clone the repo, you should do this within the SDK's "plugins" directory: cd <SDKDIR>/plugins git clone https://github.com/cseagle/collabREate.git BUILDING FOR WINDOWS Using Visual Studio 2013 or later, open collabrete.sln Based on your IDA version select and build the corresponding project IDA Version Project to build Output file <= 6.95 idaq Release / Win32 bin/collabreate.plw <= 6.95 idaq64 Release64 / Win32 bin/collabreate.p64 >= 7.0 ida Release / x64 bin/collabreate.dll >= 7.0 ida64 Release64 / x64 bin/collabreate64.dll BUILDING FOR LINUX / OSX Use the supplied Makefile to build the plugin $ make You may need to adjust paths to your SDK an IDA install in the Makefile see IDA_SDK and IDAHOME in the Makefile. Compiled binairs should land in the bin directory. The plugin depends on the json-c library from github: https://github.com/json-c/json-c NOTE that the plugin uses features that are not available in the older versions of json-c that install with most package managers, so build and install from the github sources. INSTALLING THE PLUGIN As with any IDA plugin, simply copy the compiled plugin file into collabreate's bin directory to <idadir>/plugins, where <idadir> represents the location in which IDA is installed. Due to Windows' file locking, you will likely need to make sure all Ida databases are closed before copying to this directory. USING THE PLUGIN It is intended that a new collabreate session is used for each binary loaded into IDA Pro. Once a binary is loaded and the autoanalysis phase has completed you can activate CollabREate by via the hotkey ALT-F6 or the Edit/Plugins menu. Upon activation you will be presented with a series of dialogs prompting you to connect to a CollabREate server, authenticate, start a new project, etc. The exact series of steps will very upon the running mode of the server (such as if it is connected to a backend database or not). Typical Project Join Actions: Connect: Connects to a collabreate server (default port is 5042) Authenticate: Provide a User / Password to connect to the server Choose Project: Provides a list of 'related' projects (1) New Project: Request that the server creates a new project (2) Existing Project: Join an existing project Project Snapshot: Request a new project that is a Fork of an existing project at a particular, previously saved point (2) (1) only projects that match the MD5 of the binary loaded in IDA are displayed (2) when starting a new project you must provide a textual description When connecting to an existing project for the first time, you automatically recieve all updates that have been made to the project prior to you joining. On subsequent connections you will automatically receive any updates that have been made since the last time you were connected to the project. Once connected to a project, you can use IDA normally. Updates you make are sent to the server, updates other collabreators make are reflected in your database. Reactivating the plugin while the plugin is already activated will bring up a menu of collabreate specific commands. Collaboration Actions: Disconnect: Disconnect from the server. Fork: Immediatly fork the project with the updates that IDA has recieved and join this new project. (3) Snapshot: Save a snapshot (point in time) (3) Manage Req Perms: Allows the user to change the permissions requested when joining the project Manage Proj Perms: Allows the user (only if the user is the owner of the project) to alter the project permissions. (3) the user must provide a textual description Forking creates a new projet that can have further updates, and that others can participate in (join). Snapshots are simply 'projects at a point in time' - not actual projects. You can not 'join' a snapshot. You must fork a new project from a snapshot. Overall, snapshots take up much less space than forked projects. If the server is connected to a database backend, a unique project id is stored in the idb file and subsequent connections to a server will automatically connect to the correct project.
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