mandiant / mandiant/capa

ida: fix section name as dynamic library name provided by IDA

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Description

Continuing the PR changes here: https://github.com/mandiant/capa/pull/1418#discussion_r1152956906_

we should figure out how to comprehensively identify when IDA provides this dynamic library name and strip it out, rather than hardcoding section names into the capa source code.

Contributor guide

Open the contributing guide

Research direction

Start with the discussion linked from PR #1418 and trace the related capa source changes for IDA section names. Determine how to identify names supplied as dynamic library names without hardcoding them, then verify that those names are stripped correctly across the relevant IDA cases.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Assessment

Tech stack
python
Domain
reverse-engineering
Issue type
Bug
Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
35/100

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