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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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Preface 1. Preparing to Reverse FREE CHAPTER 2. Identification and Extraction of Hidden Components 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

Other obfuscation techniques


The obfuscation techniques we discussed are based on hiding actual strings and code using simple cryptography. Still, there are other ways to obfuscate code. As long as the concept of impeding data and code from easy extraction and analysis is present, then obfuscation still occurs. Let's discuss some more obfuscation techniques.

Control flow flattening obfuscation

The aim of control flow flattening is to make a simple code look like a complicated set of conditional jumps. Let's consider this simple code:

    cmp byte ptr [esi], 0x20
    jz loc_00EB100C
    mov eax, 0
    jmp loc_00EB1011
loc_00EB100C:
    mov eax, 1
loc_00EB1011:
    test eax, eax
    ret

When obfuscated using the control flow flattening method, it would look something like this:

    mov ecx, 1
    mov ebx, 0                ; initial value of control variable
loc_00EB100A:
    test ecx, ecx
    jz loc_00EB103C           ; jump will never happen, an endless loop
loc_00EB100E:
    cmp ebx, 0      ...
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