ret-sync stands for Reverse-Engineering Tools synchronization. It’s a set of plugins that help to synchronize a debugging session (WinDbg/GDB/LLDB/OllyDbg2/x64dbg) with IDA disassembler. The underlying idea is simple: take the best from both worlds (static and dynamic analysis).

From debuggers and dynamic analysis we got:

    local view, with live dynamic context (registers, memory, etc.)
    built-in specialized features/API (ex: Windbg’s !peb, !drvobj, !address, etc.)

From IDA and static analysis we got:

    macro view over modules
    code analysis, signatures, types, etc.
    fancy graph view
    persistent storage of knowledge within IDBs

Keys features:

    Pass data (comment, command output) from debugger to disassembler (IDA)
    Multiple IDBs can be synced at the same time allowing to easily trace through multiple modules
    No need to deal with ALSR, addresses are rebased on-the-fly
    IDBs and debugger can be on different hosts

ret-sync is a fork of qb-sync that I developed and maintained during my stay at Quarkslab.

https://github.com/bootleg/ret-sync
https://github.com/quarkslab/qb-sync