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I have a binary file that I am disassembling in IDA. Because IDA can’t find every single code path, I need to manually go through and find unexplored areas in the binary and convert them to code by basically repeating Ctrl+U and C. This is obviously very time consuming.
Is there a way to automatically find unexplored areas and attempt to convert them to code?
In the end, I chose to convert the binary image into an ELF file and marked the binary code as executable.
When I loaded this ELF file into IDA, the ELF file headers told IDA that it was a code section and IDA began using its own heuristics to automatically disassemble as much as possible as code.
Here’s the short script I used to achieve this.