Bachaalany Elias - Practical Reverse Engineering: x86, x64, ARM, Windows Kernel, Reversing Tools, and Obfuscation

Practical Reverse Engineering: x86, x64, ARM, Windows Kernel, Reversing Tools, and Obfuscation

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About the Authors

Bruce Dang is a senior security development engineering lead at Microsoft working on security technologies in unreleased Microsoft products. Previously, he worked on security vulnerabilities reported to Microsoft and was the first to publicly share analytical techniques for targeted attacks with Office documents. He and his team analyzed the famous Stuxnet malware, which supposedly attacked the Iranian uranium enrichment process. He has spoken at RSA, BlackHat Vegas, BlackHat Tokyo, Chaos Computer Club, REcon, and many other industry conferences.

Alexandre Gazet is a security researcher at Quarkslab. His interests focus on reverse engineering, software protections, and vulnerability research. Alexandre has presented at several conferences, including HITB Kuala Lumpur (2009) and REcon Montreal (2010 and 2011).

Elias Bachaalany has been a computer programmer, reverse engineer, freelance technical writer, and an occasional reverse engineering trainer for the past 14 years. Over his long career, Elias has worked with various technologies, including writing scripts, doing extensive web development, working with database design and programming, writing device drivers and low-level code such as boot loaders or minimal operating systems, writing managed code, assessing software protections, and writing reverse engineering and desktop security tools. Elias has also presented twice at REcon Montreal (2012 and 2013).

While working for Hex-Rays SA in Belgium, Elias helped to improve and add new features to IDA Pro. During that period, he authored various technical blog posts, provided IDA Pro training, developed various debugger plugins, amped up IDA Pro's scripting facilities, and contributed to the IDAPython project since version 1.2.0 and onwards. Elias currently works at Microsoft with a talented team of software security engineers.

Sbastien Josse is a security researcher at the French Ministry of Defense (Direction Gnrale de l'Armement). He has more than ten years of experience as an instructor, researcher, and consultant in the field of information systems security, in both the civilian and defense sectors. He dedicated his PhD dissertation (cole Polytechnique, 2009) to the dynamic analysis of protected programs, focusing mainly on cryptographic mechanisms resistant to reverse engineering and on the use of a virtualization system to carry through analysis of protected programs. He has published in the journal JICV and several conferences proceedings, including ECRYPT (2004), EICAR (2006, 2008, 2011), AVAR (2007) and HICSS (2012, 2013 and 2014).

About the Technical Editor

Matt Miller is a principal security engineer in Microsoft's Trustworthy Computing organization, where he currently focuses on researching and developing exploit-mitigation technology. Prior to joining Microsoft, Matt was core developer for the Metasploit framework and a contributor to the journal Uninformed, where he wrote about topics related to exploitation, reverse engineering, program analysis, and operating system internals.

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