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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

Hello World

Programs in the Windows environment communicate with the system by using Windows APIs. These APIs are built around the file system, memory management (including processes, the stack, and allocations), the registry hive, network communication, and so forth. Regarding reverse engineering, a wide coverage of these APIs and their library modules is a good advantage when it comes to easily understanding how a program works when seen in its low-level language equivalent. So, the best way to begin exploring APIs and their libraries would be to develop some programs ourselves.

There are many high-level languages used by developers like C, C++, C#, and Visual Basic.  C, C++, and Visual Basic (native) compile to an executable that directly executes instructions in the x86 language. C# and Visual Basic (p-code) are usually compiled to use interpreters as a layer that turns...

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