I am working on a reverse engineering project on android apk. I would like to check if the file being analyzed is a binary file such as .so file or elf file. Is it possible to get it from idapro?
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I copied the wrong function name by mistake, please see edited answer for the correct name.– NirIzrCommented Jan 16, 2017 at 10:09
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There is an IDApython function that provides what you're after.
It's called idaapi.get_file_type_name() and it will return the same string displayed in the "Load a new file" dialog:
Additionally, there's another function called get_loader_name, which is only accessible through IDA's C SDK and isn't exposed by IDAPython because it wasn't thought to be needed. Emailing hexrays asking it to be included in idapython will probably get a positive response, making it available to future versions.
