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Mastering Reverse Engineering

By : Reginald Wong
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Mastering Reverse Engineering

By: Reginald Wong

Overview of this book

If you want to analyze software in order to exploit its weaknesses and strengthen its defenses, then you should explore reverse engineering. Reverse Engineering is a hackerfriendly tool used to expose security flaws and questionable privacy practices.In this book, you will learn how to analyse software even without having access to its source code or design documents. You will start off by learning the low-level language used to communicate with the computer and then move on to covering reverse engineering techniques. Next, you will explore analysis techniques using real-world tools such as IDA Pro and x86dbg. As you progress through the chapters, you will walk through use cases encountered in reverse engineering, such as encryption and compression, used to obfuscate code, and how to to identify and overcome anti-debugging and anti-analysis tricks. Lastly, you will learn how to analyse other types of files that contain code. By the end of this book, you will have the confidence to perform reverse engineering.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
Index

Attack tools


There may be cases where we need to craft our own packets to fool the program into thinking that it is receiving live data from the network. Though these tools are primarily developed to generate exploited network packets for penetration testing, these can also be used for reverse engineering:

  • Metasploit(https://www.metasploit.com/): This is aframeworkwith scripts that cangenerateexploited packets to send to the target for penetration tests. Thescriptsare modular and users can develop their own scripts.
  • ExploitPack (http://exploitpack.com/): This has the same concept as Metasploit, though is maintained by a different group of researchers.