Hide Java console in Windows

[Ana06]

I have installed openJDK and the XRefer plugin in Windows. When you open IDA, the Python library asciinet (called by XRefer) calls java.exe that opens a java console that keeps open the whole time. 😞

I think this is a bug in asciinet. We could try to report it to asciinet, but the project 7 years old and seems to be abandoned. One idea to solve the issue is to fork the asciinet project and include this fix and the patch in the XRefer code. This way others would benefit from the improvements in asciinet too. But this is just an idea. I am happy with anything that removes the java console. 😉

After this is fixed, I would really like to add this useful tool to the FLARE-VM default configuration. This is tracked in FLARE-VM in mandiant/VM-Packages#1210.

[caprinux]

I forked and made a PR to asciinet (cosminbasca/asciinet#7) to hide the java console window.

Given that the project is abandoned, I'm not sure if it'll get committed but a temporary fix would be to modify the source code of asciinet directly to run javaw instead of java in __init__.py :)

[m-umairx]

Thank you for pushing a PR to asciinet. I am doubtful it will get committed however, so in the interim I've pushed a hot-patch within xrefer to resolve the issue.