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Mastering Reverse Engineering

Re-engineer your ethical hacking skills

Publisher:Packt Publishing Limited
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|Jun 2024
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Description

Implement reverse engineering techniques to analyze software, exploit software targets, and defend against security threats like malware and viruses.

Key Features

  • Analyze and improvise software and hardware with real-world examples
  • Learn advanced debugging and patching techniques with tools such as IDA Pro, x86dbg, and Radare2.
  • Explore modern security techniques to identify, exploit, and avoid cyber threats

Book Description

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.

What you will learn

  • Learn core reverse engineering
  • Identify and extract malware components
  • Explore the tools used for reverse engineering
  • Run programs under non-native operating systems
  • Understand binary obfuscation techniques
  • Identify and analyze anti-debugging and anti-analysis tricks

Who this book is for

If you are a security engineer or analyst or a system programmer and want to use reverse engineering to improve your software and hardware, this is the book for you. You will also find this book useful if you are a developer who wants to explore and learn reverse engineering. Having some programming/shell scripting knowledge is an added advantage.

Table of Contents

  1. Preparing to Reverse
  2. Identification and extraction of hidden components
  3. The Low-Level Language
  4. Static and Dynamic Reversing
  5. Tools of the trade
  6. RE in Linux platforms
  7. RE in Windows platforms
  8. Sandboxing: Virtualization as a component for RE
  9. Binary Obfuscation Techniques
  10. Packing and Encryption
  11. Anti-analysis Tricks
  12. Practical Reverse Engineering of a Windows Executable
  13. Reversing various File-types
https://github.com/packtpublishing/mastering-reverse-engineering
PDF ISBN: 978-1-78883-529-9
Publisher: Packt Publishing Limited
Copyright owner: © 2018 Packt Publishing Limited
Publication date: 2024
Language: English
Pages: 436
Related subjects:
Computer sciences,
Programming and languages
BISAC subjects:
COM046070,
COM053000,
COM015000
Thema subjects:
ULJL,
UR,
URJ

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