SANS - "A few Ghidra tips for IDA users, part 0 - automatic comments for API call parameters"

If you haven't been living under a rock, you probably heard that the NSA released its reverse-engineering tool, Ghidra, at RSA last month. I've been an IDA user for years (it's the primary disassembler we use when I teach FOR610), but I've been trying out Ghidra over the last few days since it is free and other malware analysts have been talking about it. This is the first of several diaries I plan to write with suggestions on how to get Ghidra to do things I've come to rely on in IDA. And, being a good computer scientist, I start counting a 0, hence part 0.Let me state, right up front, I have only spent a couple of hours using Ghidra, so this is very preliminary. On first glance, one feature I missed from IDA was the comments where IDA gave me the names of parameters for Windows API calls (e.g., the first parameter to RegOpenKeyExA in MSDN is listed as hKey with a type HKEY). It turns out Ghidra can do this to. It requires changing one of the defaults in the AutoAnalysis settings (you see this when you first open a file for analysis or when you choose AutoAnalysis from the Analysis menu). The option WindowsPE x86 Propagate External Parameters is disabled by default, if you enable this option then you get the comments you expect. Continue reading A few Ghidra tips for IDA users, part 0 - automatic comments for API call parameters

from SANS Digital Forensics and Incident Response Blog http://digital-forensics.sans.org/blog/2019/04/16/a-few-ghidra-tips-for-ida-users-part-0-automatic-comments-for-api-call-parameters

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