Implementing Reverse Engineering
Implementing Reverse Engineering

Author: Jitender Narula

Publisher: BPB Publications

Published: 2021-08-27

Total Pages: 567

ISBN-13: 9391030378

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More practical less theory KEY FEATURES ● In-depth practical demonstration with multiple examples of reverse engineering concepts. ● Provides a step-by-step approach to reverse engineering, including assembly instructions. ● Helps security researchers to crack application code and logic using reverse engineering open source tools. ● Reverse engineering strategies for simple-to-complex applications like Wannacry ransomware and Windows calculator. DESCRIPTION The book ‘Implementing Reverse Engineering’ begins with a step-by-step explanation of the fundamentals of reverse engineering. You will learn how to use reverse engineering to find bugs and hacks in real-world applications. This book is divided into three sections. The first section is an exploration of the reverse engineering process. The second section explains reverse engineering of applications, and the third section is a collection of real-world use-cases with solutions. The first section introduces the basic concepts of a computing system and the data building blocks of the computing system. This section also includes open-source tools such as CFF Explorer, Ghidra, Cutter, and x32dbg. The second section goes over various reverse engineering practicals on various applications to give users hands-on experience. In the third section, reverse engineering of Wannacry ransomware, a well-known Windows application, and various exercises are demonstrated step by step. In a very detailed and step-by-step manner, you will practice and understand different assembly instructions, types of code calling conventions, assembly patterns of applications with the printf function, pointers, array, structure, scanf, strcpy function, decision, and loop control structures. You will learn how to use open-source tools for reverse engineering such as portable executable editors, disassemblers, and debuggers. WHAT YOU WILL LEARN ● Understand different code calling conventions like CDECL, STDCALL, and FASTCALL with practical illustrations. ● Analyze and break WannaCry ransomware using Ghidra. ● Using Cutter, reconstruct application logic from the assembly code. ● Hack the Windows calculator to modify its behavior. WHO THIS BOOK IS FOR This book is for cybersecurity researchers, bug bounty hunters, software developers, software testers, and software quality assurance experts who want to perform reverse engineering for advanced security from attacks. Interested readers can also be from high schools or universities (with a Computer Science background). Basic programming knowledge is helpful but not required. TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Impact of Reverse Engineering 2. Understanding Architecture of x86 machines 3. Up and Running with Reverse Engineering tools 4. Walkthrough on Assembly Instructions 5. Types of Code Calling Conventions 6. Reverse Engineering Pattern of Basic Code 7. Reverse Engineering Pattern of the printf() Program 8. Reverse Engineering Pattern of the Pointer Program 9. Reverse Engineering Pattern of the Decision Control Structure 10. Reverse Engineering Pattern of the Loop Control Structure 11. Array Code Pattern in Reverse Engineering 12. Structure Code Pattern in Reverse Engineering 13. Scanf Program Pattern in Reverse Engineering 14. strcpy Program Pattern in Reverse Engineering 15. Simple Interest Code Pattern in Reverse Engineering 16. Breaking Wannacry Ransomware with Reverse Engineering 17. Generate Pseudo Code from the Binary File 18. Fun with Windows Calculator Using Reverse Engineering

Reversing
Reversing

Author: Eldad Eilam

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2011-12-12

Total Pages: 630

ISBN-13: 1118079760

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Beginning with a basic primer on reverse engineering-including computer internals, operating systems, and assembly language-and then discussing the various applications of reverse engineering, this book provides readers with practical, in-depth techniques for software reverse engineering. The book is broken into two parts, the first deals with security-related reverse engineering and the second explores the more practical aspects of reverse engineering. In addition, the author explains how to reverse engineer a third-party software library to improve interfacing and how to reverse engineer a competitor's software to build a better product. * The first popular book to show how software reverse engineering can help defend against security threats, speed up development, and unlock the secrets of competitive products * Helps developers plug security holes by demonstrating how hackers exploit reverse engineering techniques to crack copy-protection schemes and identify software targets for viruses and other malware * Offers a primer on advanced reverse-engineering, delving into "disassembly"-code-level reverse engineering-and explaining how to decipher assembly language

Mastering Reverse Engineering
Mastering Reverse Engineering

Author: Reginald Wong

Publisher: Packt Publishing Ltd

Published: 2018-10-31

Total Pages: 423

ISBN-13: 1788835298

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Implement reverse engineering techniques to analyze software, exploit software targets, and defend against security threats like malware and viruses. Key FeaturesAnalyze and improvise software and hardware with real-world examplesLearn advanced debugging and patching techniques with tools such as IDA Pro, x86dbg, and Radare2.Explore modern security techniques to identify, exploit, and avoid cyber threatsBook Description If you want to analyze software in order to exploit its weaknesses and strengthen its defenses, then you should explore reverse engineering. Reverse Engineering is a hackerfriendly tool used to expose security flaws and questionable privacy practices.In this book, you will learn how to analyse software even without having access to its source code or design documents. You will start off by learning the low-level language used to communicate with the computer and then move on to covering reverse engineering techniques. Next, you will explore analysis techniques using real-world tools such as IDA Pro and x86dbg. As you progress through the chapters, you will walk through use cases encountered in reverse engineering, such as encryption and compression, used to obfuscate code, and how to to identify and overcome anti-debugging and anti-analysis tricks. Lastly, you will learn how to analyse other types of files that contain code. By the end of this book, you will have the confidence to perform reverse engineering. What you will learnLearn core reverse engineeringIdentify and extract malware componentsExplore the tools used for reverse engineeringRun programs under non-native operating systemsUnderstand binary obfuscation techniquesIdentify and analyze anti-debugging and anti-analysis tricksWho this book is for If you are a security engineer or analyst or a system programmer and want to use reverse engineering to improve your software and hardware, this is the book for you. You will also find this book useful if you are a developer who wants to explore and learn reverse engineering. Having some programming/shell scripting knowledge is an added advantage.

Reverse Engineering of Object Oriented Code
Reverse Engineering of Object Oriented Code

Author: Paolo Tonella

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 226

ISBN-13: 9780387402956

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During maintenance of a software system, not all questions can be answered directly by resorting to otherwise reliable and accurate source code. Reverse engineering aims at extracting abstract, goal-oriented views of the system, able to summarize relevant properties of the program's computations. Reverse Engineering of Object-Oriented Code provides a comprehensive overview of several techniques that have been recently investigated in the field of reverse engineering. The book describes the algorithms involved in recovering UML diagrams from the code and the techniques that can be adopted for their visualization. This is important because the UML has become the standard for representing design diagrams in object-oriented development. A state-of-the-art exposition on how to design object-oriented code and accompanying algorithms that can be reverse engineered for greater flexibility in future code maintenance and alteration. Essential object-oriented concepts and programming methods for software engineers and researchers.

Practical Reverse Engineering
Practical Reverse Engineering

Author: Bruce Dang

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2014-02-03

Total Pages: 384

ISBN-13: 1118787390

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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.

Reverse Engineering in Control Design
Reverse Engineering in Control Design

Author: Daniel Alazard

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2013-03-05

Total Pages: 150

ISBN-13: 1118602625

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Reverse Engineering in Control Design proposes practical approaches to building a standard H-infinity problem taking into account an initial controller. Such approaches allow us to mix various control objectives and to initialize procedures for a fixed-structure controller design. They are based on the Observer-Based Realization (OBR) of controllers. The interest of OBR from the controller implementation point of view is detailed and highlighted in this book through academic examples. An open-source toolbox is available to implement these approaches in Matlab®. Throughout the book academic applications are proposed to illustrate the various basic principles. These applications have been chosen by the author for their pedagogic contents and demo files and embedded Matlab® functions can be downloaded so readers can run these illustrations on their personal computers. Contents 1. Observer-based Realization of a Given Controller. 2. Cross Standard Form and Reverse Engineering. 3. Reverse Engineering for Mechanical Systems. Appendix 1. A Preliminary Methodological Example. Appendix 2. Discrete-time Case. Appendix 3. Nominal State-feedback for Mechanical Systems. Appendix 4. Help of Matlab® Functions. About the Authors Daniel Alazard is Professor in System Dynamics and Control at Institut Supérieur de l'Aéronautique et de l’Espace (ISAE), Toulouse, France – SUPAERO Graduate Program. His main research interests concern robust control, flexible structure control and their applications to various aerospace systems.

Ghidra Software Reverse Engineering for Beginners
Ghidra Software Reverse Engineering for Beginners

Author: A. P. David

Publisher: Packt Publishing Ltd

Published: 2021-01-08

Total Pages: 322

ISBN-13: 1800201842

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Detect potentials bugs in your code or program and develop your own tools using the Ghidra reverse engineering framework developed by the NSA project Key Features Make the most of Ghidra on different platforms such as Linux, Windows, and macOS Leverage a variety of plug-ins and extensions to perform disassembly, assembly, decompilation, and scripting Discover how you can meet your cybersecurity needs by creating custom patches and tools Book DescriptionGhidra, an open source software reverse engineering (SRE) framework created by the NSA research directorate, enables users to analyze compiled code on any platform, whether Linux, Windows, or macOS. This book is a starting point for developers interested in leveraging Ghidra to create patches and extend tool capabilities to meet their cybersecurity needs. You'll begin by installing Ghidra and exploring its features, and gradually learn how to automate reverse engineering tasks using Ghidra plug-ins. You’ll then see how to set up an environment to perform malware analysis using Ghidra and how to use it in the headless mode. As you progress, you’ll use Ghidra scripting to automate the task of identifying vulnerabilities in executable binaries. The book also covers advanced topics such as developing Ghidra plug-ins, developing your own GUI, incorporating new process architectures if needed, and contributing to the Ghidra project. By the end of this Ghidra book, you’ll have developed the skills you need to harness the power of Ghidra for analyzing and avoiding potential vulnerabilities in code and networks.What you will learn Get to grips with using Ghidra's features, plug-ins, and extensions Understand how you can contribute to Ghidra Focus on reverse engineering malware and perform binary auditing Automate reverse engineering tasks with Ghidra plug-ins Become well-versed with developing your own Ghidra extensions, scripts, and features Automate the task of looking for vulnerabilities in executable binaries using Ghidra scripting Find out how to use Ghidra in the headless mode Who this book is for This SRE book is for developers, software engineers, or any IT professional with some understanding of cybersecurity essentials. Prior knowledge of Java or Python, along with experience in programming or developing applications, is required before getting started with this book.

Product Design
Product Design

Author: Kevin N. Otto

Publisher: 清华大学出版社有限公司

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 1100

ISBN-13: 9787302070481

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Covert Java
Covert Java

Author: Alex Kalinovsky

Publisher: Sams Publishing

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 300

ISBN-13:

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As a Java developer, you may find yourself in a situation where you have to maintain someone else's code or use a third-party's library for your own application without documentation of the original source code. Rather than spend hours feeling like you want to bang your head against the wall, turn to "Covert Java: Techniques for Decompiling, Patching, and Reverse Engineering." These techniques will show you how to better understand and work with third-party applications. Each chapter focuses on a technique to solve a specific problem, such as obfuscation in code or scalability vulnerabilities, outlining the issue and demonstrating possible solutions. Summaries at the end of each chapter will help you double check that you understood the crucial points of each lesson. You will also be able to download all code examples and sample applications for future reference from the publisher's website. Let "Covert Java" help you crack open mysterious codes!