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Mastering Reverse Engineering

You're reading from Mastering Reverse Engineering Re-engineer your ethical hacking skills

Product type Paperback

Published in Oct 2018

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781788838849

Length 436 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Linux

Concepts

Ethical Hacking

Author (1):

Reginald Wong

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Table of Contents (15) Chapters

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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Nowadays, websites usually convert binary data to printable ASCII text in order for the site developers to easily embed this data along with the HTML scripts. Others simply convert data to something that is not easy for humans to read. In this section, we will aim to decode data that has been hidden from plain understandable form. In Chapter 13 Reversing various File-types, we will deal more with how to reverse other File-Types besides Windows and Linux executables. In the meantime, we will just decode obvious data.

Let us head to our browsers and visit www.google.com, at the time of writing (we stored a copy of the source at https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Mastering-Reverse-Engineering/blob/master/ch10/google_page_source.txt), viewing the source would show us a portion that has a b64 encoded text, as in the following screenshot:

Using Cyberchef, a tool which can help decode various types of encoded data including base 64, we can deduce this data to something we understand...

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Authors (1)

Wong

Wong

Dr. Timothy Wong is a 30 years IT veteran. He holds a PhD in networking from University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology, UK. He has deep experience in wireless and wireline networking, digital a/v, software development, sales and consulting. He frequently works with telcos, banks, governments and enterprises. He is also a professor on Big Data, Wireless and IoT at Humber College, Toronto, Canada. As an entrepreneur, he co-founded a number of companies in the past 20 years. He infuses business and technical knowledge to pursue successes.

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