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Mastering Reverse Engineering

By : Wong

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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.

Preface

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What this book covers

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Preparing to Reverse

Reverse engineering

Technical requirements

Reverse engineering as a process

Tools

Malware handling

Basic analysis lab setup

Samples

Summary

Identification and Extraction of Hidden Components

Technical requirements

The operating system environment

Typical malware behavior

Tools

Summary

Further reading

The Low-Level Language

Technical requirements

Binary numbers

x86

Basic instructions

Tools – builder and debugger

Hello World

After Hello

Summary

Further reading

Static and Dynamic Reversing

Assessment and static analysis

Dynamic analysis

Try it yourself

Summary

References

Tools of the Trade

Analysis environments

Information gathering tools

Disassemblers

Debuggers

Decompilers

Network tools

Editing tools

Attack tools

Automation tools

Software forensic tools

Automated dynamic analysis

Online service sites

Summary

RE in Linux Platforms

Setup

Linux executable – hello world

Network traffic analysis

Summary

Further reading

RE for Windows Platforms

Technical requirements

Hello World

What is the password?

Summary

Further reading

Sandboxing - Virtualization as a Component for RE

Emulation

Analysis in unfamiliar environments

Summary

Further reading

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