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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

Chapter 2

  1. Ghidra scripts are useful because they can be used to automatize reverse engineering tasks.

    Some tasks that you can automatize using Ghidra scripts are the following:

    - Searching for strings and code patterns

    - Automatically deobfuscating code

    - Adding useful comments to enrich the dissasembly

  2. Scripts are organized by category, as shown on the left-hand side of the following screenshot:

    Script Manager

    When clicking on the checklist icon located in the upper-right margin, as shown in the preceding screenshot taken from the Script Manager window, the paths of script directories will be shown:

    Script Directories

    But the organization of the scripts in the Script Manager is taken from the @category field located in the header of the script code, as shown in the following listing:

    //TODO write a description for this script //@author //@category Strings
    //@keybinding //@menupath //@toolbar 

    Notice that the previous script header is a Python header, but an analogous header is used...

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