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Mastering Reverse Engineering

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

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788838849
Length 436 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Reginald Wong Reginald Wong
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Preface 1. Preparing to Reverse 2. Identification and Extraction of Hidden Components FREE CHAPTER 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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Developing our own programs to do analysis may sometimes be a must. For example, if the program contains a decryption algorithm, we can develop a separate program that can run the same algorithm that may be used for similar programs with the same decryption algorithm. If we wanted to identify variants of the file we were analyzing, we could automate the identification for incoming files using one of the following:

  • Python: This scriptinglanguageis popularbecauseof it availability across multiple platforms. It is pre-installed in Linux operating systems;compiledbinaries for Windows can be downloaded fromhttps://www.python.org/. 
  • Yara: A tool and language from the developers of VirusTotal. It is capable of searching the contents of files for a set of binary or text signatures. Its most common application is in searching for malware remnants in a compromised system.
  • Visual Studio: A piece of Microsoft software for coding and building programs. It can be used by reverse engineers...
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