IDA Pro python idaapi

Question

Hello I have a fast question.

I have been trying to save a full memory dump in IDA Pro in a variable to perform a search with a python script but I did not find the correct function to do it using idaapi.

I want to do something like:

import idaapi

dump=get_memory_dump() # Or whatever function to do it

if "foo" in dump:
print "foo is in dump"

How can I get the dump? Like you can see I want to do a script to found pattherns in the memory while I am debugging a application.

Thank you very much

Answer 1

Use idaapi.nextthat() to search for the byte sequence then use dbg_read_memory() to read the memory of the program being debugged. Since the latter appears to make a copy, reading, say, 4GB would be unwise.