explorer: provide capa insight via "hint" popups
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Description
IDA plugins can override the "hints" displayed to a user when they hover over an address. By default, this displays the first few lines of disassembly. We could override this behavior and provide a summary of the function's capabilities, via the capa rule matches.
Example of the implementation is here: https://github.com/williballenthin/idawilli/blob/master/plugins/dynamic_hints/dynamic_hints.py
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start with the referenced plugins/dynamic_hints/dynamic_hints.py example and locate the explorer's existing hover-hint handling. Trace how capa rule matches are available for a function, then determine how the hint should present that summary. Done means hovering an address in the explorer shows relevant capa rule matches instead of only the initial disassembly lines.
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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
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100