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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)

Static analysis with objdump

Continuing with the output from our script, we'll dive into static analysis using objdump. We want to go through each block of code carefully so that we understand each instruction, how it manipulates the stack, how it alters the value of a register, and whether or not it sets any flags in the EFLAGS register.

Getting ready

To work through this recipe, start VirtualBox (if it's not already open) and then start the 64-bit Ubuntu virtual machine. Once the virtual machine is up and running, open the Terminal application and change the current working directory to ~/bac/Binary-Analysis-Cookbook/Chapter-07/64bit.

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