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Mastering Reverse Engineering

Mastering Reverse Engineering

By : Wong
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Mastering Reverse Engineering

Mastering Reverse Engineering

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By: Wong
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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 (15 chapters)
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Preface
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Preface
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Who this book is for
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What this book covers
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Preparing to Reverse
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Preparing to Reverse
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Reverse engineering
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Technical requirements
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Reverse engineering as a process
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Tools
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Malware handling
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Basic analysis lab setup
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Samples
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Summary
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Identification and Extraction of Hidden Components
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Identification and Extraction of Hidden Components
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Technical requirements
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The operating system environment
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Typical malware behavior
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Tools
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Summary
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Further reading
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The Low-Level Language
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The Low-Level Language
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Technical requirements
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Binary numbers
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x86
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Basic instructions
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Tools – builder and debugger
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Hello World
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After Hello
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Summary
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Further reading
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Static and Dynamic Reversing
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Static and Dynamic Reversing
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Assessment and static analysis
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Dynamic analysis
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Try it yourself
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Summary
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References
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Tools of the Trade
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Tools of the Trade
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Analysis environments
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Information gathering tools
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Disassemblers
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Debuggers
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Decompilers
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Network tools
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Editing tools
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Attack tools
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Automation tools
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Software forensic tools
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Automated dynamic analysis
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Online service sites
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Summary
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RE in Linux Platforms
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RE in Linux Platforms
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Setup
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Linux executable – hello world
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Network traffic analysis
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Summary
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Further reading
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RE for Windows Platforms
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RE for Windows Platforms
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Technical requirements
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Hello World
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What is the password?
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Summary
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Further reading
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Sandboxing - Virtualization as a Component for RE
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Sandboxing - Virtualization as a Component for RE
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Emulation
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Analysis in unfamiliar environments
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Summary
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Further Reading
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Binary Obfuscation Techniques
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Binary Obfuscation Techniques
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Data assembly on the stack
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Encrypted data identification
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Assembly of data in other memory regions
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Decrypting with x86dbg
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Other obfuscation techniques
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Summary
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Packing and Encryption
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Packing and Encryption
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A quick review on how native executables are loaded by the OS
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Packers, crypters, obfuscators, protectors and SFX
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Unpacking
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Dumping processes from memory
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How about an executable in its unpacked state?
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Other file-types
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Summary
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Anti-analysis Tricks
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Anti-analysis Tricks
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Anti-debugging tricks
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Anti-VM tricks
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Anti-emulation tricks
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Anti-dumping tricks
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Summary
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Practical Reverse Engineering of a Windows Executable
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Practical Reverse Engineering of a Windows Executable
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Things to prepare
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Initial static analysis
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Debugging
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Summary
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Further Reading
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Reversing Various File Types
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Reversing Various File Types
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Analysis of HTML scripts
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MS Office macro analysis
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PDF file analysis
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SWF file analysis
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Summary
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Further reading
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