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Mastering Reverse Engineering

By : Wong
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Mastering Reverse Engineering

By: 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 (15 chapters)

Technical requirements


It is best, but not required, that the reader has some background knowledge of any programming language. Having a programming background will help the reader to understand assembly language more quickly. There are references given at the end of this chapter that the reader can use for further programming development and research not provided in this book.

Some tools that we will use here include the following:

  • Binary editors, such as HxD Editor or HIEW (Hacker's View)
  • Text editors, such as Notepad++