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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 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

Data assembly on the stack


The stack is a memory space in which any data can be stored. The stack can be accessed using the stack pointer register (for 32-bit address space, the ESP register is used). Let's consider the example of the following code snippet:

push 0
push 21646c72h
push 6f57206fh
push 6c6c6548h
mov eax, esp
push 74h
push 6B636150h
mov edx, esp
push 0
push eax
push edx
push 0
mov eax, <user32.MessageBoxA>
call eax

This will eventually display the following message box:

How did that happen when no visible text strings were referenced? Before calling for the MessageBoxA function, the stack would look like this:

These push instructions assembled the null terminated message text at the stack.

push 0
push 21646c72h
push 6f57206fh
push 6c6c6548h

While the other string was assembled with these push instructions:

push 74h
push 6B636150h

In effect, the stack dump would look like this.

Every after string assembly, the value of register ESP is stored in EAX and then EDX.  That is, EAX points...

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