ida: enhance API detection (potential)
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Description
observed interesting API call technique:
IDA appears to detect the proper API call for decompilation:
IDA backend doesn't detect the call, can we improve this?
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Research direction
Reproduce the API-call discrepancy described in the issue and compare capa's result with IDA's detection shown in the attached screenshots. Trace the relevant API-detection entry point in the Python code; the work is complete when capa recognizes the demonstrated call technique consistently.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- python
- Domain
- reverse-engineering
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100