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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

Automated dynamic analysis


These are tools used to automatically gather information by running the program in an enclosed sandbox.

  • Cuckoo: This is a piece of Python-codedsoftwaredeployed in Debian-based operating systems. Usually, Cuckoo is installed in the hosting Ubuntu system, andsendsfiles to be analyzed in the VMWare or VirtualBox sandbox clients. Its development is community-driven, and as such, a lot of open source plugins are available for download.
  • ThreatAnalyzer: Sold commercially, ThreatAnalyzer, previously known as CWSandbox, has been popular in the anti-virus community for its ability to analyze malware and return very useful information. And because users are able to develop their own rules, ThreatAnalyzer, as a backend system, can be used to determine if a submitted file contains malicious behaviors or not.
  • Joe Sandbox: This is another commercial tool that shows meaningful information about the activities that a submitted program carries out when executed.
  • Buster Sandbox Analyzer...