Mastering Reverse Engineering
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Mastering Reverse Engineering
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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 (20 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
Free Chapter
Preparing to Reverse
Identification and Extraction of Hidden Components
The Low-Level Language
Static and Dynamic Reversing
Tools of the Trade
RE in Linux Platforms
RE for Windows Platforms
Sandboxing - Virtualization as a Component for RE
Binary Obfuscation Techniques
Packing and Encryption
Anti-analysis Tricks
Practical Reverse Engineering of a Windows Executable
Reversing Various File Types
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Index
Customer Reviews