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Binary Analysis Cookbook

By : Michael Born
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Binary Analysis Cookbook

By: Michael Born

Overview of this book

Binary analysis is the process of examining a binary program to determine information security actions. It is a complex, constantly evolving, and challenging topic that crosses over into several domains of information technology and security. This binary analysis book is designed to help you get started with the basics, before gradually advancing to challenging topics. Using a recipe-based approach, this book guides you through building a lab of virtual machines and installing tools to analyze binaries effectively. You'll begin by learning about the IA32 and ELF32 as well as IA64 and ELF64 specifications. The book will then guide you in developing a methodology and exploring a variety of tools for Linux binary analysis. As you advance, you'll learn how to analyze malicious 32-bit and 64-bit binaries and identify vulnerabilities. You'll even examine obfuscation and anti-analysis techniques, analyze polymorphed malicious binaries, and get a high-level overview of dynamic taint analysis and binary instrumentation concepts. By the end of the book, you'll have gained comprehensive insights into binary analysis concepts and have developed the foundational skills to confidently delve into the realm of binary analysis.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)

Introducing common IA-32 instructions

Whether you plan to develop your own shellcode in assembly or get better at understanding disassembled binaries, the following instructions will serve you well. In this section, we'll learn about instructions that copy values; instructions that will allow us to redirect program flow by jumping elsewhere in the program; instructions that allow us to add or subtract, multiply, or divide; instructions that show us how to safely zero out registers to avoid pesky NULL bytes; instructions that allow us to interact with and manipulate the stack; and many, many more. Just a word of warning: this will be a long recipe because I want to make sure we cover as many instructions in detail as possible. This will not be a complete list of instructions but will be more than enough to get us started.

This recipe will help to solidify our knowledge of...