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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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Table of Contents (15) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Preparing to Reverse FREE CHAPTER 2. Identification and Extraction of Hidden Components 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

What is the password?


In this section, we are going to reverse the passcode.exe program. As a practice run, we'll gather the information we need by using static and dynamic analysis tools. We'll use some of the Windows tools that were introduced in the previous chapters. Do not be limited by the tools that we are going to use here. There are a lot of alternatives that can do the same task.  The OS environment used to analyze this program is a Windows 10, 32-bit, 2 GB RAM, 2 core processor in a VirtualBox.

Static analysis

The second piece of information that you'll need to know, next to knowing the filename, is the hash of the file. Let's pick Quickhash (https://quickhash-gui.org/) to help us with this task.  After opening the passcode.exe file using Quickhash, we can get the hash calculations for various algorithms.  The following screenshot shows the calculated SHA256 hash for the passcode.exe file:

The file has a name extension of.exe. This initially sets us to use tools for analyzing Windows...

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