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Binary Analysis Cookbook

You're reading from   Binary Analysis Cookbook Actionable recipes for disassembling and analyzing binaries for security risks

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789807608
Length 396 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Michael Born Michael Born
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Preface 1. Setting Up the Lab 2. 32-bit Assembly on Linux and the ELF Specification FREE CHAPTER 3. 64-bit Assembly on Linux and the ELF Specification 4. Creating a Binary Analysis Methodology 5. Linux Tools for Binary Analysis 6. Analyzing a Simple Bind Shell 7. Analyzing a Simple Reverse Shell 8. Identifying Vulnerabilities 9. Understanding Anti-Analysis Techniques 10. A Simple Reverse Shell With Polymorphism 11. Another Book You May Enjoy

Automating methodology tasks

When approaching anything, I'm a firm believer in the automate what you can mindset. For our methodology, we can certainly automate some of the tasks and commands by writing our own scripts to do so. This can be done in Bash or by using a language such as Python and as long as we make sure to format any output in a way that makes it easier for us to review, we can save ourselves a bit of time. The discovery phase would be a little challenging to automate, so when we refer to automation, we are referring to any information-gathering and static analysis phases of the methodology.

We will focus on writing a script that automates the information gathering and static analysis phases of this methodology using Bash. If we chose, and if we wanted more control over the output, we could write this in Python, Perl, or really any scripting language we are...

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