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How to load external plugin windbg?

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We can load external plugins to help during reverse engineering/exploit development.

for instance if you want to load pykd, you need to place the pykd.pyd in ext folder.

pykd.pyd #

Copy pykd.pyd to C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\8.0\Debuggers\x86\winext or C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\Debuggers\x86\winext

Example in powershell:

copy-item  pykd.pyd "C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\8.0\Debuggers\x86\winext" 
copy-item  pykd.pyd "C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\Debuggers\x86\winext"

You can use the windbg command to load the module

.load pykd

mona #

You can follow the instructions here in the official link