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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

Setup

This chapter discusses Linux reverse engineering, so we need to have a Linux setup. For reverse engineering, it is recommended to deploy Linux on a bare-metal machine. And since most of the analysis tools that have been developed are Debian-based, let's use 32-bit Ubuntu Desktop. I chose Ubuntu because it has a strong community. Because of that, most of the issues may already have a resolution or solutions may be readily available. 

Why build our setup on a bare-metal machine? It is a better host for our sandbox clients, especially when monitoring network traffic. It also has an advantage in proper handling of Windows malware, preventing compromise due to accidental malware execution.

You can go to https://www.ubuntu.com/ to obtain an ISO for the Ubuntu installer. The site includes an installation guide. For additional help, you can visit the...

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