Jitender Narula - Implementing Reverse Engineering

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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.

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.

What you will learn

Understand different code calling conventions like CDECL, STDCALL, and FASTCALL with practical illustrations.

Analyze and break WannaCry ransomware using Ghidra.

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).

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

About the Authors

Jitender Narula is an experienced Cyber Security Specialist currently associated with the International Institute of Cyber Security (www.iicybersecurity.com) having 18+ years of industry experience. He has many years of cybersecurity experience with the government and the corporate world. In India, he has worked for law enforcement agencies (LEA), government entities like Delhi Police, ICAI (Institute of Chartered Accountants of India), Delhi University, and private organizations.

LinkedIn Profile: https://in.linkedin.com/in/jitender-narula-7146123

Blog Link:https://www.securitynewspaper.com/2020/04/24/employee-data-leaked-apple-google-microsoftlinkedin-intel-cisco-verizon-oracle-hp-nvidia-affected/