Practical Reverse Engineering: x86, x64, ARM, Windows Kernel, Reversing Tools, and Obfuscation Author: Bruce Dang | Language: English | ISBN:
1118787315 | Format: PDF
Practical Reverse Engineering: x86, x64, ARM, Windows Kernel, Reversing Tools, and Obfuscation Description
Analyzing how hacks are done, so as to stop them in the future
Reverse engineering is the process of analyzing hardware or software and understanding it, without having access to the source code or design documents. Hackers are able to reverse engineer systems and exploit what they find with scary results. Now the good guys can use the same tools to thwart these threats. Practical Reverse Engineering goes under the hood of reverse engineering for security analysts, security engineers, and system programmers, so they can learn how to use these same processes to stop hackers in their tracks.
The book covers x86, x64, and ARM (the first book to cover all three); Windows kernel-mode code rootkits and drivers; virtual machine protection techniques; and much more. Best of all, it offers a systematic approach to the material, with plenty of hands-on exercises and real-world examples.
- Offers a systematic approach to understanding reverse engineering, with hands-on exercises and real-world examples
- Covers x86, x64, and advanced RISC machine (ARM) architectures as well as deobfuscation and virtual machine protection techniques
- Provides special coverage of Windows kernel-mode code (rootkits/drivers), a topic not often covered elsewhere, and explains how to analyze drivers step by step
- Demystifies topics that have a steep learning curve
- Includes a bonus chapter on reverse engineering tools
Practical Reverse Engineering: Using x86, x64, ARM, Windows Kernel, and Reversing Tools provides crucial, up-to-date guidance for a broad range of IT professionals.
- Paperback: 384 pages
- Publisher: Wiley; 1 edition (February 17, 2014)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1118787315
- ISBN-13: 978-1118787311
- Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.3 x 0.8 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
This book does a good job of teaching. It's not just another reference book. A lot of technical books just blast facts at you, and sure you might learn a lot but you don't know how the author learned those things himself. This book takes more of a teaching approach: You learn how the authors learned things.
This book is fairly small for a technical book at only 340 pages, but it is very dense. Every sentence is important.
You need to have used IDA and windbg before you start reading this book.
Very helpful to translate your knowledge from x86 to ARM and explaining how Windows kernel code works. I really like it's line "If the process of reverse engineering Windows drivers could be modeled as a discrete task, 90% would be understanding how Windows works and 10% would be understanding assembly code."
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