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Getting Started

First experience with IDA? Great, you are in the right place. Here you can find guides designed to quickly onboard you into IDA. We will walk you through license activation and IDA installation to the essential tasks you can perform in IDA.

Activate your license Check how to activate your license in My Hex-Rays portal.
Install your IDA Get smoothly through installation process on your machine.
Start using IDA Check basic features of IDA and reverse your first binary.
Begin scripting with Domain API Explore a simple and open-source Python API for common tasks.