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Ghidra Software Reverse Engineering for Beginners

By : A. P. David
Book Image

Ghidra Software Reverse Engineering for Beginners

By: A. P. David

Overview of this book

Ghidra, an open source software reverse engineering (SRE) framework created by the NSA research directorate, enables users to analyze compiled code on any platform, whether Linux, Windows, or macOS. This book is a starting point for developers interested in leveraging Ghidra to create patches and extend tool capabilities to meet their cybersecurity needs. You'll begin by installing Ghidra and exploring its features, and gradually learn how to automate reverse engineering tasks using Ghidra plug-ins. You’ll then see how to set up an environment to perform malware analysis using Ghidra and how to use it in the headless mode. As you progress, you’ll use Ghidra scripting to automate the task of identifying vulnerabilities in executable binaries. The book also covers advanced topics such as developing Ghidra plug-ins, developing your own GUI, incorporating new process architectures if needed, and contributing to the Ghidra project. By the end of this Ghidra book, you’ll have developed the skills you need to harness the power of Ghidra for analyzing and avoiding potential vulnerabilities in code and networks.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
1
Section 1: Introduction to Ghidra
6
Section 2: Reverse Engineering
12
Section 3: Extending Ghidra

Chapter 5

  1. Imports leak the capabilities of malware taken from dynamic linking libraries, including operating system libraries, which enables communication for the malware with the outside. Sometimes the malware dynamically loads dynamic linking libraries (via the LoadLibrary API) and dynamically imports functions (via the GetProcAddress API), so you will not see the full set of imported libraries during a static analysis without further analysis than opening the binary with Ghidra and looking for the imports.
  2. Yes. You can use a Ghidra analyzer to extract object-oriented information from the disassembly (for example, objects, methods, and so on) and improve the disassembly listing using this information. Or, use a Ghidra analyzer to enrich the disassembly listing with object-oriented information obtained from a third-party source.
  3. There are a lot of benefits to it:

    - Bypass firewall rules if the application the code is injected into has associated firewall rules that are...