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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 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

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Technical requirements

The discussions will use the Windows environment. We will be using the virtual machine setup we created in the previous chapter. In addition, you'll need to download and install this software: the SysInternals suite (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/sysinternals-suite).

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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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