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Ghidra Software Reverse Engineering for Beginners

You're reading from   Ghidra Software Reverse Engineering for Beginners Analyze, identify, and avoid malicious code and potential threats in your networks and systems

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781800207974
Length 322 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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A. P. David A. P. David
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Preface 1. Section 1: Introduction to Ghidra
2. Chapter 1: Getting Started with Ghidra FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Automating RE Tasks with Ghidra Scripts 4. Chapter 3: Ghidra Debug Mode 5. Chapter 4: Using Ghidra Extensions 6. Section 2: Reverse Engineering
7. Chapter 5: Reversing Malware Using Ghidra 8. Chapter 6: Scripting Malware Analysis 9. Chapter 7: Using Ghidra Headless Analyzer 10. Chapter 8: Auditing Program Binaries 11. Chapter 9: Scripting Binary Audits 12. Section 3: Extending Ghidra
13. Chapter 10: Developing Ghidra Plugins 14. Chapter 11: Incorporating New Binary Formats 15. Chapter 12: Analyzing Processor Modules 16. Chapter 13: Contributing to the Ghidra Community 17. Chapter 14: Extending Ghidra for Advanced Reverse Engineering 18. Assessments 19. Other Books You May Enjoy

Why use headless mode?

As previously said, non-GUI applications allow you to work faster because, generally speaking, it is faster to write a command than to perform a GUI operation such as clicking a menu option, and then filling in some form, and finally submitting it.

On the other hand, non-GUI applications can be easily integrated with scripts, allowing you to apply a process to multiple binaries, integrate the application with other tools, and so on.

Imagine you are analyzing some malware using Ghidra and then you identify an encrypted string containing the Command and Control (C&C) URL pointing to the server that controls the malware. Then, you are required to retrieve the C&C URLs of thousands of malware samples in order to sinkhole the domains, in other words, in order to deactivate thousands of malware samples.

Given this situation, to load every malware sample into Ghidra and look for the C&C URL is not an option, even if you have developed a script to...

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