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An accessible roadmap to software disassembly for advanced security professionals In
x86 Software Reverse-Engineering, Cracking, and Counter-Measures, veteran security researchers and thought leaders deliver an introductory crash course in software reverse-engineering and cracking, as well as the methods used to counter those tactics.
The authors provide the foundation to take anyone with a basic background in software and turn them in to proficient x86 reverse engineers, crackers and defenders.
In the book, you'll examine software, techniques, and tools that real-world crackers, researchers, and defenders use. You'll put your newfound knowledge to the test with the use of extensive hands on labs, introducing you to a wide range of industry favorite tools - such as IDA, Resource Hacker, Cheat Engine, Immunity, and more. Additionally you'll learn some powerful defensive techniques that not only makes you a better defender but empowers you to be a better reverse engineering and cracker.
An essential and practice resource for developers, security professionals, security researchers, and programmers.
x86 Software Reverse-Engineering, Cracking and Counter-Measures is the hands-on blueprint for taking apart, reasoning about, and manipulating x86 based code that the security community has been waiting for.
List of contents
Introduction xxiii
Chapter 1 Decompilation and Architecture 1
Chapter 2 x86 Assembly: Data, Modes, Registers, and Memory Access 13
Chapter 3 x86 Assembly: Instructions 31
Chapter 4 Building and Running Assembly Programs 43
Chapter 5 Understanding Condition Codes 57
Chapter 6 Analyzing and Debugging Assembly Code 65
Chapter 7 Functions and Control Flow 77
Chapter 8 Compilers and Optimizers 127
Chapter 9 Reverse Engineering: Tools and Strategies 137
Chapter 10 Cracking: Tools and Strategies 147
Chapter 11 Patching and Advanced Tooling 179
Chapter 12 Defense 203
Chapter 13 Advanced Defensive Techniques 217
Chapter 14 Detection and Prevention 229
Chapter 15 Legal 239
Chapter 16 Advanced Techniques 245
Chapter 17 Bonus Topics 251
Conclusion 271
Index 273
About the author
STEPHANIE DOMAS is the CISO of Canonical, where she is driving Canonical to be the most trusted computational partner in all of open source. Prior to that she was the Chief Security Technology Strategist at Intel where she owned the cross-Intel security technology strategy across Intel's wide portfolio of products. Stephanie is a passionate educator, strategist, speaker, advisor, and security enthusiast.
CHRISTOPHER DOMAS is a security researcher primarily focused on firmware, hardware, and low level processor exploitation. He is best known for releasing impractical solutions to non-existent problems, including the world's first single instruction C compiler (M/o/Vfuscator), toolchains for generating images in program control flow graphs (REpsych), and Turing-machines in the vi text editor.
