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Binary Analysis Cookbook

You're reading from   Binary Analysis Cookbook Actionable recipes for disassembling and analyzing binaries for security risks

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789807608
Length 396 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Preface 1. Setting Up the Lab 2. 32-bit Assembly on Linux and the ELF Specification FREE CHAPTER 3. 64-bit Assembly on Linux and the ELF Specification 4. Creating a Binary Analysis Methodology 5. Linux Tools for Binary Analysis 6. Analyzing a Simple Bind Shell 7. Analyzing a Simple Reverse Shell 8. Identifying Vulnerabilities 9. Understanding Anti-Analysis Techniques 10. A Simple Reverse Shell With Polymorphism 11. Another Book You May Enjoy

Using GDB TUI mode

Now that we have a somewhat safer binary to analyze, we'll use GDB to perform dynamic analysis. This step is an added bonus that may or may not provide additional information about the binary compared to what we learned during static analysis; however, performing this extra analysis step is good practice nonetheless. There may come a time that static analysis tools are rendered useless for programs that have been created to intentionally confuse tools such as objdump. Even GDB may prove to be useless in some of your future binary analysis endeavors if more advanced obfuscation techniques are used. This is just something to keep in mind.

Like the previous chapter, we're going to use GDB to analyze this binary while it's running. We want to make sure that we're analyzing the edited version of the original binary and not the original itself...

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