Reverse Engineering Code with IDA Pro
by Dan Kaminsky, Justin Ferguson, Jason Larsen, Luis Miras, Walter Pearce
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Author: Dan Kaminsky, Jason Larsen, Justin Ferguson, Luis Miras, Walter PearceEdition: Paperback
Published: 2008-02-29
ISBN: 159749237X
Number of pages: 448
Publisher: Syngress
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Summary: 2 Stars
Others have already done this book justice, but let me just go ahead and echo that this book is a big disappointment. It was bad enough that I returned my copy, which I have only ever done one other time to my recollection.
Most of this book is just filler stuff, it seems like every page was written with the sole purpose of trying to add fluff so that the book was long enough that it looked like it contained substance. Do we really need half a page to print a table that does nothing but list every possible form a MOV instruction can take?
Later in the book, you read entire chapters and at the end of the chapter you reflect on the contents, and realize you've learned nothing. What's worse, you realize the book HAS SAID NOTHING.
The comments about the source code and the publisher are accurate as well. For heaven's sake, the book was published FOUR MONTHS AGO, and already the repository for the book's source and binaries has disappeared?! Come on, this is unacceptable. Every time the book dedicates an entire chapter to disassembling a binary, you have to pretty much skip the entire chapter, because the binary isn't available for you to disassemble. You can't follow along.
Not that it would have helped much anyway. In one example you try to disassemble and debug a version of the common netcat utility that has a vulnerability. The binary and source are available for download from a publi website. So you download it and start following the book, and nothing matches up. It's totally different, even though this is a public download! Why? Because there's no symbols available in the public download, and the one in the book was reversed with symbols. So now you have to build your own copy of it, but now the generated code is different because you're not using the same compiler, so you STILL can't follow along. Furthermore, the very first step in the walkthrough of finding this bug in the book says "The bug is in the SessionWriteShellThreadFn function, so we will start there". WOW THAT WAS SO OBVIOUS! I'm sure glad 80% of the problem came pre-solved so that we could get right down to the fluff and skip the actual learning part.
Summary of Reverse Engineering Code with IDA Pro
If you want to master the art and science of reverse engineering code with IDA Pro for security R&D or software debugging, this is the book for you. Highly organized and sophisticated criminal entities are constantly developing more complex, obfuscated, and armored viruses, worms, Trojans, and botnets. IDA Pros interactive interface and programmable development language provide you with complete control over code disassembly and debugging. This is the only book which focuses exclusively on the worlds most powerful and popular took for reverse engineering code.*Reverse Engineer REAL Hostile Code with Dan Kaminsky
To follow along with this chapter, you must download a file called !DANGER!INFECTEDMALWARE!DANGER!... nuff said.
*Download the Code!
The companion Web site to this book offers up really evil code for you to reverse engineer and really nice code for you to automate tasks with the IDC Scripting Language.
*Portable Executable (PE) and Executable and Linking Formats (ELF)
Understand the physical layout of PE and ELF files, and analyze the components that are essential to reverse engineering.
*Break Hostile Code Armor and Write your own Exploits
Understand execution flow, trace functions, recover hard coded passwords, find vulnerable functions, backtrace execution, and craft a buffer overflow.
*Master Debugging
Debug in IDA Pro, use a debugger while reverse engineering, perform heap and stack access modification, and use other debuggers.
*Stop Anti-Reversing
Anti-reversing, like reverse engineering or coding in assembly, is an art form. The trick of course is to try to stop the person reversing the application. Find out how!
*Track a Protocol through a Binary and Recover its Message Structure
Trace execution flow from a read event, determine the structure of a protocol, determine if the protocol has any undocumented messages, and use IDA Pro to determine the functions that process a particular message.
*Develop IDA Scripts and Plug-ins
Learn the basics of IDA scripting and syntax, and write IDC scripts and plug-ins to automate even the most complex tasks.
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