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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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The beauty of emulation is that it can fool the operating system into thinking that it is running on a certain CPU architecture. The drawback is noticeably slow performance, since almost every instruction is interpreted. To explain CPUs briefly, there are two CPU architecture designs: Complex Instruction Set Computing (CISC) and Reduced Instruction Set Computing (RISC). In assembly programming, CISC would only require a few instructions. For example, a single arithmetic instruction, such as MUL, executes lower-level instructions in it. In RISC, a low-level program should be carefully optimized. In effect, CISC has the advantage of requiring less memory space, but a single instruction would require more time to execute. On the other hand, RISC has better performance, since it executes instructions in a simplistic way. However, if a code is not properly optimized, programs built for RISC may not perform as fast as they should and may consume space. High-level compilers should have...

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