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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)

Linux Tools for Binary Analysis

We've covered a ton of information in a small amount of space so far and, if you're on track and understand what we've covered, then you're off to a great start. If you're already deeply familiar with the tools we've covered at a high level thus far, you are free to skip this chapter entirely and move on to the next chapter. Otherwise, continue to work through the recipes in this chapter as we're about to take a deeper look into some of the tools we've learned about. This chapter is designed in a way that will help us to really understand the tools at our disposal and what options may be more useful than others under certain circumstances. We'll start with some simple recipes for tools that only have a few command-line arguments and we'll finish with more robust tools that have instruction manuals...