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Mastering Reverse Engineering

You're reading from Mastering Reverse Engineering Re-engineer your ethical hacking skills

Product type Paperback

Published in Oct 2018

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781788838849

Length 436 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Linux

Concepts

Ethical Hacking

Author (1):

Reginald Wong

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Table of Contents (15) Chapters

Preface

1. Preparing to Reverse FREE CHAPTER

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 for 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

14. Other Books You May Enjoy

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Analysis environments

The environment setup in reverse engineering is crucial to the result. We need a sandbox environment where we can dissect and play with the file, without worrying that we may break something. And since the most popular operating systems are Microsoft Windows and Linux, let's discuss using these operating systems in a virtual environment.

Virtual machines

From the first chapter, we introduced using VirtualBox as our desktop virtualization system. The reason we chose VirtualBox was because of it being freeware. But besides VirtualBox, choosing the right sandboxing software depends on user preferences and requirements. There are pros and cons for every piece of sandboxing software, so it is worth exploring those on offer to find out which software you prefer. Here's a small list of virtualization software:

VMWare Workstation: This is a commercial, and widely popular, piece of virtualization software. VMWare Workstation can be downloaded from https://www.vmware.com.
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Authors (1)

Wong

Wong

Dr. Timothy Wong is a 30 years IT veteran. He holds a PhD in networking from University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology, UK. He has deep experience in wireless and wireline networking, digital a/v, software development, sales and consulting. He frequently works with telcos, banks, governments and enterprises. He is also a professor on Big Data, Wireless and IoT at Humber College, Toronto, Canada. As an entrepreneur, he co-founded a number of companies in the past 20 years. He infuses business and technical knowledge to pursue successes.

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