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{{Infobox software
| name = Interactive Disassembler
| logo = 
| screenshot = Mme de Maintenon.jpg
| caption = Portrait of [[Françoise d'Aubigné]], whose image is used as the IDA logo
| collapsible = 
| author = [[Ilfak Guilfanov]]
| developer = Hex-Rays
| released = {{Start date and age|1991|05|21}}<ref>{{Cite web |last=Czokow |first=Geoffrey |date=2021-05-20 |title=IDA: celebrating 30 years of binary analysis innovation |url=https://hex-rays.com/blog/ida-celebrating-30-years-of-binary-analysis-innovation/ |access-date=2023-03-19 |website=Hex-Rays |language=en}}</ref>
| latest release version = 9.1<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://docs.hex-rays.com/release-notes/9_1|title=IDA 9.1 |access-date=March 29, 2024 }}</ref>
| latest release date = {{Start date and age|2025|2|28}}
| latest preview version = 
| latest preview date = 
| programming language = [[C++]]<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.hex-rays.com/ |title=Hex-rays Home |access-date=2008-03-31 |archive-date=2024-05-26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240526003338/https://hex-rays.com/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
| operating system = [[Microsoft Windows]], [[Mac OS X]], and [[Linux]]
| platform = 
| size = 
| language = [[English language|English]], [[Russian language|Russian]]
| genre = [[Disassembler]], [[Decompiler]]
| license = Proprietary
| website = {{URL|https://hex-rays.com/ida-pro/}}
}}
The '''Interactive Disassembler''' ('''IDA''') is a [[disassembler]] for [[software|computer software]] which generates [[assembly language]] [[source code]] from [[Machine code|machine-executable code]]. It supports a variety of [[executable|executable format]]s for different [[Central processing unit|processor]]s and [[operating system]]s. It can also be used as a [[debugger]] for [[Portable Executable|Windows PE]], [[Mac&nbsp;OS&nbsp;X]] [[Mach-O]], and [[Linux]] [[Executable and Linkable Format|ELF]] executables. A [[decompiler]] plug-in, which generates a high level, [[C (programming language)|C]] source code-like representation of the analysed program, is available at extra cost.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Eagle |first=Chris |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/830164382 |title=The IDA Pro Book : the Unofficial Guide to the World's Most Popular Disassembler. |date=2011 |publisher=No Starch Press |isbn=978-1-59327-395-8 |edition=2nd |location=San Francisco |pages=500–502 |chapter=Chapter 23: Real-World IDA Plug-ins |oclc=830164382}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Hex-Rays Decompiler |url=https://hex-rays.com/decompiler/ |access-date=2023-03-18 |website=hex-rays.com}}</ref>

IDA is used widely in software [[reverse engineering]], including for [[malware analysis]]<ref>{{Cite web |last=Staff |first=S. C. |date=2017-09-11 |title=Hex-Rays IDA Pro |url=https://www.scmagazine.com/product-test/content/hex-rays-ida-pro |access-date=2023-03-13 |website=SC Media |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Sikorski |first=Michael |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/830164262 |title=Practical Malware Analysis : a Hands-On Guide to Dissecting Malicious Software. |date=2012 |publisher=No Starch Press |others=Andrew Honig |isbn=978-1-59327-430-6 |location=San Francisco |chapter=Chapter 5. IDA Pro |oclc=830164262}}</ref> and [[Vulnerability (computing)|software vulnerability]] research.<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Shoshitaishvili |first1=Yan |last2=Wang |first2=Ruoyu |last3=Salls |first3=Christopher |last4=Stephens |first4=Nick |last5=Polino |first5=Mario |last6=Dutcher |first6=Andrew |last7=Grosen |first7=John |last8=Feng |first8=Siji |last9=Hauser |first9=Christophe |last10=Kruegel |first10=Christopher |last11=Vigna |first11=Giovanni |chapter=SOK: (State of) the Art of War: Offensive Techniques in Binary Analysis |date=2016-05-22 |title=2016 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (SP) |chapter-url=https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7546500 |pages=138–157 |doi=10.1109/SP.2016.17|hdl=11311/1161277 |isbn=978-1-5090-0824-7 |hdl-access=free }}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Guo |first1=Wei |last2=Wei |first2=Qiang |last3=Wu |first3=Qianqiong |last4=Guo |first4=Zhimin |date=2022-04-01 |title=CSChecker : A binary taint-based vulnerability detection method based on static taint analysis |journal=Journal of Physics: Conference Series |volume=2258 |issue=1 |pages=012069 |doi=10.1088/1742-6596/2258/1/012069 |issn=1742-6588|doi-access=free |bibcode=2022JPhCS2258a2069G }}</ref> IDA's decompiler is one of the most popular and widely used decompilation frameworks,<ref name=":02">{{Cite book |title=No More Gotos: Decompilation Using Pattern-Independent Control-Flow Structuring and Semantics-Preserving Transformations |url=https://www.ndss-symposium.org/ndss2015/ndss-2015-programme/no-more-gotos-decompilation-using-pattern-independent-control-flow-structuring-and-semantics/ |access-date=2023-03-18 |website=NDSS Symposium |date=2015 |language=en-US |doi=10.14722/ndss.2015.23185 |last1=Yakdan |first1=Khaled |last2=Eschweiler |first2=Sebastian |last3=Gerhards-Padilla |first3=Elmar |last4=Smith |first4=Matthew |isbn=978-1-891562-38-9 }}</ref><ref name=":1">{{Cite journal |last1=Schulte |first1=Eric |last2=Ruchti |first2=Jason |last3=Noonan |first3=Matt |last4=Ciarletta |first4=David |last5=Loginov |first5=Alexey |date=2018 |title=Evolving Exact Decompilation |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.14722/bar.2018.23008 |journal=Proceedings 2018 Workshop on Binary Analysis Research |location=Reston, VA |publisher=Internet Society |doi=10.14722/bar.2018.23008|isbn=978-1-891562-50-1 }}</ref><ref name=":2">{{Cite book |last1=Liu |first1=Zhibo |last2=Wang |first2=Shuai |chapter=How far we have come: Testing decompilation correctness of C decompilers |date=2020-07-18 |title=Proceedings of the 29th ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis |chapter-url=https://doi.org/10.1145/3395363.3397370 |series=ISSTA 2020 |location=New York, NY, USA |publisher=Association for Computing Machinery |pages=475–487 |doi=10.1145/3395363.3397370 |isbn=978-1-4503-8008-9}}</ref> and IDA has been called the "de-facto industry standard" for program disassembly and static binary analysis.<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Di Federico |first1=Alessandro |last2=Payer |first2=Mathias |last3=Agosta |first3=Giovanni |chapter=Rev.ng: A unified binary analysis framework to recover CFGS and function boundaries |date=2017-02-05 |title=Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Compiler Construction |chapter-url=https://doi.org/10.1145/3033019.3033028 |series=CC 2017 |location=New York, NY, USA |publisher=Association for Computing Machinery |pages=131–141 |doi=10.1145/3033019.3033028 |isbn=978-1-4503-5233-8 |quote="In an extensive evaluation, we test our [binary analysis] tool on binaries compiled for MIPS, ARM, and x86-64 using GCC and clang and compare them to the industry's state of the art tool, IDA Pro, and two well-known academic tools, BAP/ByteWeight and angr."}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last1=Garcia Prado |first1=Carlos |last2=Erickson |first2=Jon |date=April 10, 2018 |title=Solving Ad-hoc Problems with Hex-Rays API |url=https://www.fireeye.com/blog/threat-research/2018/04/solving-ad-hoc-problems-with-hex-rays-api.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220602140613/https://www.fireeye.com/blog/threat-research/2018/04/solving-ad-hoc-problems-with-hex-rays-api.html |archive-date=June 2, 2022 |access-date=March 12, 2023 |website=FireEye Threat Research Blog |quote="IDA Pro is the de facto standard when it comes to binary reverse engineering."}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Andriesse |first=Dennis |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1050453850 |title=Practical binary analysis : build your own Linux tools for binary instrumentation, analysis, and disassembly |date=2019 |publisher=No Starch Press, Inc. |isbn=978-1-59327-913-4 |location=San Francisco, CA |chapter=Appendix C: List of Binary Analysis Tools |oclc=1050453850 |quote="This [IDA Pro] is the de facto industry-standard recursive disassembler."}}</ref>