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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

Product type Paperback

Published in Jan 2021

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781800207974

Length 322 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Ghidra

Concepts

Cybersecurity

Author (1):

A. P. David

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Table of Contents (20) Chapters

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

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Chapter 1

No one reverse engineering framework is the ultimate. Each reverse engineering framework has its own strengths and weaknesses. We can mention some current Ghidra strengths when comparing Ghidra with most other reverse engineering frameworks:
- It is open source and free (including its decompiler).
- It supports a lot of architectures (it may be the framework you are using is not supported yet).
- It can load multiple binaries at the same time in a project. This feature allows you to easily apply operations over many related binaries (for example, an executable binary and its libraries).
- It allows collaborative reverse engineering by design.
- It supports big firmware images (1 GB +) without problems.
- It has awesome documentation, which includes examples and courses.
- It allows version tracking of binaries allowing the matching of functions and data and their markup between different versions of the binary.
But we can also mention an important weakness:
- Ghidra Python scripting...

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Authors (1)

A. P. David

A. P. David

A. P. David is a senior malware analyst and reverse engineer. He has more than 7 years of experience in IT, having worked on his own antivirus product, and later as a malware analyst and reverse engineer. He started working for a company mostly reverse engineering banking malware and helping to automate the process. After that, he joined the critical malware department of an antivirus company. He is currently working as a security researcher at the Galician Research and Development Center in Advanced Telecommunications (GRADIANT) while doing a malware-related PhD. Apart from that, he has also hunted vulnerabilities for some relevant companies in his free time, including Microsoft's Windows 10 and National Security Agency's Ghidra project.

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