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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

Technical requirements


We will work in an environment that will make use of virtualization software. It is recommended that we have a physical machine with virtualization enabled and a processor with at least four cores, 4 GB of RAM, and 250 GB of disk space. Pre-install this physical machine with either the Windows or Linux operating system.

We will be using VirtualBox in our setup. The host operating system version of Windows or Linux will depend on the requirements of VirtualBox. See the latest version of VirtualBox at https://www.virtualbox.org/ and look for the recommended requirements.

You may need to download virtual machines from Microsoft in advance, as these may take some time to download. See the developers' page at https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/tools/vms/. Windows 10 can be downloaded from the following link: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10